Critiquing and improving AI-generated design outputs

How I use AI in my daily workflow to move faster!

The AI Step: I use Figma Make to generate a rough layout instantly. It saves me time on brainstorming and gives me a quick starting point. I just need to understand the project and also the direction the client wants!

The Human Step: I redesigned it to match the design style and what was wanted.

So AI does the most part, and I do the cleaning because I am a UI designer (I love to have clean interfaces).

What do you think of this workflow, and how do you design lately?

Okay, here’s something I didn’t expect…

AI isn’t reducing the need for designers.
It’s exposing the gap between them.

For a long time, being “good” at design meant:
- Clean UI
- Knowing Figma
- Following patterns

That was enough.
Now... AI can already do that.
And honestly… sometimes faster than we can.

But here’s where it gets interesting.
AI doesn’t know when it’s wrong, it gives you something that looks right, feels right, sounds right. Until it isn’t.

And that’s the moment where the real skill shows up. Not in how good you are at using tools, but in whether you can say:
“This is not good enough.”
“This misses the point.”
“This is what it should be instead.”

That takes:
- Judgment
- Taste
- Experience
- A point of view

Not just execution.

I’ve started noticing this in my own work.
The hardest part is no longer creating something.
It’s deciding what should be created.

So next time AI gives you a polished answer…
Don’t accept it immediately. Push back, rewrite it, make it better, then push back some more.

I noticed that the juiciest answers always come after 1-2 hours of discussion and rabbit-hole exploration with the models.

AI is a tool. Use it.
But design is still strategy, judgment, iteration, and craft.