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Is Web Design over?
AI still can’t design. We lost anyway.
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.
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.
