Panic-learning

At least from my own end, lately I feel pretty anxious about my work as a UX designer. Everybody is building full-scale apps from a single prompt. But then, there are mountains of sloppy and half-hearted websites and apps built using AI.

So what do you do? You use your existing UI and UX design skills, combine them with AI tools to create working prototypes from the get-go.

Yet… something still… feels… kinda off.

To be honest, I haven’t been paying attention to what the “industry” is doing at the moment. But it’s a valid sentiment that designers know something needs to be done, but we can’t quite name it.

And we know it’s essential to label stuff, to “name” the problem. I don’t know if it’s an irony. But I agree that it’s a good problem needed to be solved.

We seek clarity every day in our work, but without this clarity of what the hell is going on, every new AI tool feels like an opportunity to be faster in doing all the wrong things.

All these stuff that I’m learning, the tools, the PDFs, the YouTube videos, all the way to applying them to AI tools, combined with my designs, still felt… empty. Like it’s false productivity.

Every 10 tweets I come across “prophets” who claimed they figured it out and… it’s a fucking gumroad link to their frameworks, flows, and other this that honestly didn’t change anything.

I haven’t figure it out yet, so let’s take it one step at a time.