Every month tech Twitter discovers a new AI tool that will “replace designers forever.”
Last month it was Claude.
Then Cursor.
Then Opus 4.8.
Then Google Stitch
I’ve been “replaced” 14 times this year. And still have a demand in the market. Weird.
Here’s the part nobody posts about: every single one of these tools can generate a beautiful screen and still have no idea WHY it exists.
The AI made 40 gorgeous variations of a checkout flow. Cool. Which one reduces cart abandonment? crickets
Turns out the hard part was never drawing the rectangle. It was knowing where the rectangle goes, who’s looking at it, and why they’d care.
Meanwhile designers are out here panic-learning their 600th tool like it’s a Pokémon collection, fully convinced that falling a day behind on a button generator means career death.
Plot twist: the tool changes every Tuesday. Good design thinking is from like 1955 and somehow still undefeated.
AI is fast. Genuinely. But it’s a very confident intern who’s never met your user.
Stop racing the tools. Out-think them.
They’re not coming for the designers who understand people…
They’re coming for the ones who thought design was just decoration.
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