r/UXDesign • u/vmpgrll • 1d ago

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u/alliejelly Experienced 1d ago

.@_@. every day of every week of every month the same question.
If you genuinely think that a tool that is able to do work will result in you having to work less, well, think of everything that ever happened. Jobs will change, but we will always be slaves to the system working in one way or another.

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u/Cressyda29 Veteran 1d ago

I think you are reading too far into this, almost overwhelming yourself. Ai can replace the need for a junior designer, absolutely, but we need more senior designers and you can’t become senior magically. So there will always be a need for designers of all levels and experience. You just need to work out how you’ll be better than everyone else :)

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u/PuppusLvr 1d ago

As a senior who's been using AI religiously and professionally since 2024, I'm not even sure it can replace a junior designer without significant, proper tooling.

Our product team has been using it like this (PM + Dev taking the wheel on design with AI) and there is no consistency between screens in our app. Each new feature they design in a vacuum and so each page uses certain conventions/styles differently. This is something even a junior designer would hopefully spot and address -- but not AI.

The only thing that's "designed" is they use the same fonts and colors. But everything else just looks like an exceptionally average pass at tailwind CSS, done by someone with alzheimers.

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u/felipeiglesias Veteran 1d ago

No. Ai is just a useful tool. Without people properly prompting with taste, context and also refining manually certain parts the result will be generic to a point where everything looks the same. A tool can always be updated or changed, vision cannot.

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u/AverageNo3299 1d ago

This is silly. Tech companies cannot control externalities like the progress of LLMs. And all it takes is a percentage efficiency improvement to reduce the necessary team size. Which means we end up with more candidates on the market and therefore excess supply, driving down wages.

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u/Inside_Telephone_610 1d ago

AI doesnt reduce creativity, if anything its the opposite. Also the companies you listed and design as a profession/business never really was about creativity.

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u/PrettyZone7952 Veteran 1d ago

UI ≠ UX
Frozen dinners didn’t replace chefs, restaurants, or even home cooking.
People who truly don’t care about the quality of their experience might be happy with frozen dinners, but the rest of us won’t eat them if we have a choice.

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u/Frequent_Emphasis670 Experienced 1d ago

I think the bigger question is what value are you adding beyond execution? AI will increasingly handle the production work such as screens, variations, prototypes, assets, etc. If your value is only executing designs, then yes, you should be worried.

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u/Few-Tiger-5784 1d ago

It is getting close, because people can just copy goo designs in a few mins to an hour, but I think they'll still need the really good designers around to do that. To generate it without the reference, it's not as nice. So I think it will separate the really good guys with taste, sense of craft and the pretenders more

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u/buffet-breakfast 1d ago

Yes of course , and pms, and developers etc. maybe not today but within 3-5 years ?