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As an indie developer - sometimes I need a logo. I cannot afford 10-50k USD to hire a studio to make me a logo for an app. I had experience with websites like 9
by outcoldman 2y ago
As an indie developer - sometimes I need a logo. I cannot afford 10-50k USD to hire a studio to make me a logo for an app. I had experience with websites like 99designs. Used it 5 times. Only once I got something OK out of it, I mean it was simple, and it was ok to use it for my needs. Every time the process was a week or two. I tried to explain what my business does, what an app will do, but the results were very plain. And I understand why, if at the end this designer will get only $500-1000 for his job, and only if I choose them, what the point of so much investment.
Currently, I am able to use AI, I can spend 2 hours of my time to get something out of it that I like, spend another day in Photoshop/Designer to fix some glitches, and at the end I can get a logo that I can use.
In this workflow, I can only see how AI can improve things. (a) designers on 99designs can use AI to generate some ideas for me without spending much of their time drawing, if they are creative, they can write their thoughts, and provide a "low-quality" idea but nicely made with AI, and I can continue to work with them, so they can transform this idea to vector (b) I can use AI to brainstorm ideas I like, and after that hire not so creative designer, but knowledgeable in tools to create for me a vector.
My point is, this is not the first time things have changed. Those are just new tools we can use. Sure, somebody might get affected. But I don't see how creativity will erode. You still need to be creative to generate a picture.