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What kind of design work is AI even capable of? I’m not saying the output isn’t occasionally very impressive (as a toy), I’m saying it’s utterly useless in prac
by djhn 1y ago
What kind of design work is AI even capable of? I’m not saying the output isn’t occasionally very impressive (as a toy), I’m saying it’s utterly useless in practice.
Coming up with a spec or design system? I’m not sure what an AI-generated design could possibly be based on and how it would get the necessary inputs from stakeholders other than… in the form of a spec, formulated by someone collating those requirements.
Creating assets based on a spec or design system? Again, I have yet to see any output that can stay internally consistent. Frontend code might even work, despite being a mishmash of half a dozen flavours of react with two or three different vintages of tailwind. But good luck with native code or anything beyond basic CRUD forms.
I recently tried to get claude and gemini to scaffold a tailwind component library from a pretty comprehensive design document. It felt like getting a roomba to swim across a lake.
- cjbgkagh 1y agoSorry by designers I mean UI assets. Art and iconography. I recently needed a transpiler for a mini-DSL to Lua. Google Gemini did a pretty good job of it, hallucinated a bunch of non existent helper functions but they were easy enough to add. It knew the target language Lua better than I did so it has some good ideas for simple generation of code. I naively would have generated more natural looking code at the cost of more effort. Once I fixed the bugs it worked fine. I estimate it would have taken me 4x as long without it.