I Use AI as a Personal Assistant on Every Design Project. Hereβs Exactly How.
The design process hasnβt changed. How much energy you have left for it has.
Let me say something that might surprise you.
After years of designing at scale β AI-powered tools for 1.6M Walmart associates, global experiences at Adobe, multi-product workflows at Intuit β I donβt think AI has fundamentally changed what good design requires.
You still need to talk to real users. You still need to understand the business. You still need to make judgment calls that no algorithm can make for you.
What AI has changed is everything around the design. The retrieval. The synthesis. The prep work. The 11pm Slack thread archaeology.
And that changes everything about how much of yourself you have left when you sit down to actually create.
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