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Why design if AI can create the same thing in 10% of the time it takes you?
These 3 designs took more than 1.5h to conceptualize, copywrite and draft as a sample piece for a client.
Doing it with AI might've taken 5min. It'll be clunky and probably slightly ugly, sure, but no one's gonna notice... right?
Turns out, everyone can tell. The value prop we, as designers, have is creative freedom and actual human touch. Designs synthesized from nothing but understand of the client's desired outcomes, perfected with years of experience and understanding of color theory and layout principles. Rather than slop created from the same templates AI has been fed with.
And that is something AI can't replace, at least, not in the next 5 years (hopefully).
What do you think?
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🔍 Researched app UI/UX, screens and flows on Mobbin.
🎨 Fed a standout flow of screens into Figma Make.
💰 Generated a Mobile UI Kit of 10 Components based on best UI/UX I can now refine, package, and sell as a Digital Product.
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Most designers treat AI tools as a shortcut. That’s why their output still looks like a first draft.
Figma Make isn’t fast because it skips steps, it’s fast because it collapses the gap between thinking and building.
I’ve been using it to go from strategy straight to ready prototypes. That changes how you scope. How you price. How much revision you take in.
I broke down exactly how I use it in a walkthrough for Contra University
Watch it now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9RA94pLueI
this is so dope man
I was on a client call today explaining why I went with a certain brand direction and halfway through I realized I wasn't explaining anything. I was figuring it out on the call.
Like.. the strategy doc exists and the rationale is in there. but the thing that came out was even better than what I had, and I think that's because I had to make it understandable for someone who's not in my head for 3 weeks.
Not sure if that's a bad thing or not? I think the reason presenting design work feels awful sometimes (at least for me) is because my thinking isn't done yet and I can feel myself finishing it in real time and there's nowhere to hide.
I've been trying to just... accept it? Like, stop treating the presentation as the thing after the work. It might be the work.
Still figuring that out tbh
It's for sure really hard to present design decisions when we feel as if nothing is ever considered "done". I think designers index pretty high on the perfectionism scale which makes it so difficult to feel like anything is ever complete. I think putting ourselves in positions...
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