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> It's not replacing designers. Except it is. Plenty of places will say this is all good enough and not hire, or even lay off, the UI/UX person. I've seen this

> It's not replacing designers. Except it is. Plenty of places will say this is all good enough and not hire, or even lay off, the UI/UX person. I've seen this firsthand.

enraged_camel 6mo ago
Yeah, agreed. And realistically they are correct. I’d argue that “good enough” is how most things are done.
jameslk 6mo ago
I have seen this as well, except the UI ends up all looking similar, because the harness prompt and training data doesn’t change much The average becomes the same shade of gray. Familiarity breeds contempt. New types of design will emerge that are expensive to copy, because differentiation drives competition
- buzzerbetrayed 6mo ago
  Which is perfectly adequate for 95% of applications. Hell, it’d probably improve most applications if they adopted some proven shade of gray. Why do people feel that each and every tool they use needs its own unique look and feel? And why are people willing to pay more for that? In some cases, sure. For my smart sprinkler app.. I don’t give a damn if it looks like 1000 other apps.
  - bdangubic 6mo ago
    I’d actually prefer if all of them looked and worked the same, especially useful if you have elderly family members you need to teach how to use app for XYZ. all government websites (especially functional ones that citizens use to do something on) for instance should be exactly the same
- UqWBcuFx6NV4r 6mo ago
  Y’all would have much more productive conversations about AI if you were even for a second able to differentiate the aspects of $x that you care about as a craft via which the majority of people care about. HN has truly become the embodiment of the “this is fine” meme.
rukuu001 6mo ago
Especially if you’re working on an established product with an existing design system. New features / layouts are really easy now. These tools don’t solve big design problems, but they do resolve all the little design decisions often left up to devs at implementation time.
baxtr 6mo ago
In those cases you’ve seen firsthand, who is actually using Claude design (or similar tools) to create the good enough design?
- stringfood 6mo ago
  The important point is that 2 years ago these AI tools were like 20% percentile for UX designers, today it is as good as a junior or normal UI UX Developer, 2 years from now it will be in 90th percentile, etc
  - altmanaltman 6mo ago
    And then in 2 years after what, what will happen?
    - stringfood 6mo ago
      99% of UX Designers will be out of the job apparently
  - baxtr 6mo ago
    But again: who is actually using/commanding the tool to create the designs?
    - hombre_fatal 6mo ago
      Someone who is wearing more hats than they used to.
pknerd 6mo ago
Especially when the recession is around the corner. Thanks, Uncle Trump

> It's not replacing designers. Except it is. Plenty of places will say this is all good enough and not hire, or even lay off, the UI/UX person. I've seen this firsthand.

enraged_camel 6mo ago

Yeah, agreed. And realistically they are correct. I’d argue that “good enough” is how most things are done.

jameslk 6mo ago

I have seen this as well, except the UI ends up all looking similar, because the harness prompt and training data doesn’t change much The average becomes the same shade of gray. Familiarity breeds contempt. New types of design will emerge that are expensive to copy, because differentiation drives competition

buzzerbetrayed 6mo ago
Which is perfectly adequate for 95% of applications. Hell, it’d probably improve most applications if they adopted some proven shade of gray. Why do people feel that each and every tool they use needs its own unique look and feel? And why are people willing to pay more for that? In some cases, sure. For my smart sprinkler app.. I don’t give a damn if it looks like 1000 other apps.
- bdangubic 6mo ago
  I’d actually prefer if all of them looked and worked the same, especially useful if you have elderly family members you need to teach how to use app for XYZ. all government websites (especially functional ones that citizens use to do something on) for instance should be exactly the same
UqWBcuFx6NV4r 6mo ago
Y’all would have much more productive conversations about AI if you were even for a second able to differentiate the aspects of $x that you care about as a craft via which the majority of people care about. HN has truly become the embodiment of the “this is fine” meme.

rukuu001 6mo ago

Especially if you’re working on an established product with an existing design system. New features / layouts are really easy now. These tools don’t solve big design problems, but they do resolve all the little design decisions often left up to devs at implementation time.

baxtr 6mo ago

In those cases you’ve seen firsthand, who is actually using Claude design (or similar tools) to create the good enough design?

stringfood 6mo ago
The important point is that 2 years ago these AI tools were like 20% percentile for UX designers, today it is as good as a junior or normal UI UX Developer, 2 years from now it will be in 90th percentile, etc
- altmanaltman 6mo ago
  And then in 2 years after what, what will happen?
  - stringfood 6mo ago
    99% of UX Designers will be out of the job apparently
- baxtr 6mo ago
  But again: who is actually using/commanding the tool to create the designs?
  - hombre_fatal 6mo ago
    Someone who is wearing more hats than they used to.

pknerd 6mo ago

Especially when the recession is around the corner. Thanks, Uncle Trump