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Is Web Design over?

AI still can’t design. We lost anyway.

Michal Malewicz
9 min readFeb 2, 2025

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Design lost to AI even before AI got any good at design.

Design is over. We lost the battle with AI.

But not in the way you think.

I know this kind of title, this kind of article, will get many people riled up. They’ll accuse me of negativity baiting, like they’ve done many time in the past when I was highlighting some of the bad Figma stuff.

Today none of my Figma criticisms seem controversial anymore, and people are switching to other tools at a rate we haven’t seen in years.

Hear me out. I didn’t want to write this article. The only reason I did, is that I noticed something bad going on. If we don’t stop it, it will soon be too late.

Design in 2025 still uses paper flows and sketches
A lot of good design still starts on paper. Even in 2025.

What kind of AI design?

I’m talking primarily about web design here. There are tools out there — mostly for mobile apps — that can use an existing design system to sort-of put together some screens into a flow.

They’ve been around for a while, and they haven’t replaced designers. It’s the same with developers using AI tools to do some things faster, but we are nowhere close to them being actually replaced.

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Michal Malewicz
Michal Malewicz

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