I hope the “pushing pixels” thing will die at some point but saying design is the first AI casualty when you see results and time that it takes to get something satisfying, let’s be serious for a second.
DESIGN: THE FIRST AI CASUALTY
I'm increasingly sure that 2026 signals the end of product design as a full-fledged stand-alone function within companies. If so, it will be the first role / function to be eliminated by AI on a go-forward basis.
Instead of hiring FT designers, startups are hiring / will hire design consultants to create a design system that the founder likes (this takes a few weeks max). Once the design system is finalized, PM/Eng feed it into their AI tool of choice to generate prototypes. The design system is refreshed annually by the same consultant.
Larger companies will likely not backfill design roles and will do some targeted attrition to reduce the design department to 20% the size it is today.
If you're a designer, I think you have two choices:
1. Become an entrepreneur: Start a design agency and become the go-to resource for design systems for startups and even larger companies. This can be a good recurring revenue business.
2. Become a builder: Add PM/Eng responsibilities to become a product builder.
Would suggest you embrace this proactively vs waiting for the other shoe to drop.
I'm really sorry about this - some of my best friends and the people I admire most and have learnt the most from are designers - but it seems inevitable.
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no way claude design is out of usage in 3 prompt. @AnthropicAI what's the plan ?
This is a good tool but we can probably tweak claude code to get the same results.
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There's a hidden tax on every knowledge worker in the world, and nobody talks about it:
The design tax.
You're a strategist, a sales lead, a marketer. You were hired for what you know. But every meeting, every pitch, every proposal expects you to show up with something that looks like a designer made it.
I lived this. Before Gamma, I spent time in consulting and investment banking. I spent more hours formatting slides than the analysis that went into them.
When my cofounders and I started Gamma, we asked: what if you never had to be a designer in the first place?
Five years and nearly 100 million users later, we've refunded billions of hours of the design tax.
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You were hired for your ideas, not to resize text boxes. Let Gamma pay the design tax.
Le gouvernement français est tellement à la ramasse qu’il va brûler de l’argent sur un sujet déjà traité depuis 20 ans (avec un corpus scientifique important) pour ne pas aller traiter les vrais sujets.
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