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I was always chasing freelance work on nights and weekends. That hunger helped because I never specialized early on. Any design or web project was “sure, I can do that.” I learned on the fly, built broad skills, and got great at managing clients.
> low AI adoption among designers might be self-preservation, I mean something more than protecting our job. I mean preserving the idea that design is a thinking discipline, not an output one.
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Spent hours trying to integrate AI into a freelance branding project.
Final direction came from pen and paper.
The tools are still pretty bad at this kind of work.
Helping plan my kid's entrepreneur week and most parents just want the simplest, most generic product so they can move on.
Mismatched drive is what makes team projects a nightmare.
Design done with defaults and prompts is already detected miles away.
The difference between designers will be the discipline of continuing to do the work, without shortcuts.
@yourgirlhils Most people think the model is the problem. It’s not. The problem is when your own standard for “good enough” quietly becomes whatever the model defaults to.
It is incredible how after so many years the figure of Michael Jackson as an artist continues to attract new generations, children imitating his footsteps, screams and outfits. There really hasn't been anything like it.
The weirdest flex right now is "I one-shotted this with AI."
Cool. So can a stranger who types a similar sentence.
It means the output required zero judgment and zero editing. You skipped the part that makes it yours. The work is everything that happens after the first result.
Local coffee shop ended up blocking the electric outlets they setup initially to avoid people staying working.
While I can see how holding a table for long spans of time is a problem. I believe there should be better ways to handle people that say for long without consuming.
There’s also an assumption that users know exactly what they need and can articulate it clearly. We know that’s not true.
The sweet spot is probably 80% well-designed UI for everyday tasks, 20% AI for the long tail.
But that’s not the future of software.
That’s a good feature.
If every user sees a different interface:
- How does support work?
- How do you write help docs?
People actually like standards. You learn one app and carry that muscle memory to the next. That’s not a limitation, that’s how humans work.
@sebdedeyne In my experience, gemini has better UI instincts. That's when I switch to cursor to make gemini do a UI pass for quick things. Instead of keep correcting Claude for UI changes.
I pulled GitHub data expecting to see the AI coding boom.
Not much changed.
Until last month.
Last years AI helped us write code.
Now agents help everyone create software.
@linuz90 Love people building their own version of heavy used apps. This one looks very similar to @BearNotesApp wondering if you try it or what differences it has.