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Not a design post asking you to randomly choose between 2 things just because I wanted to post.
This is frustration, and I want all the designers and their real thoughts on it.
AI has made designing ridiculously fast. Earlier, making 3 concepts took enough effort that you eventually picked one and moved on. Now I can make 3, 10, 20 and still think, “but what if #21 cooks?”
AI made creating options almost free. I think it accidentally made choosing one much harder.
And the scary part? Clients know another concept is almost free too.
Are we actually designing faster, or just rejecting more things faster?
Spot on. The one more loop is lethal. How do you set boundaries with clients so they value conviction over quantity?
Honestly, I haven’t figured it out yet — that’s why I posted. Some days I hold the line and present one direction; other days the client says “just one more” and I fold.
So I’ll bounce it back to the thread: for the folks who’ve actually cracked this — is it the contract, the...
This is my frustration speaking through the post
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The Met Artwork: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/195456
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What if the most valuable commodity of our time replaced the most valuable commodity of theirs?
Inspired by Ralph Earl’s portrait of Elijah Boardman, an 18th-century American textile merchant, I reimagined him as a contemporary Data Merchant.
The fabrics surrounding Boardman become server racks. His textile shop becomes a data center. The merchant remains — only the commodity has changed.
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Original artwork: The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Elijah Boardman
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Nice job done