I asked AI to design a dashboard yesterday.
I asked AI to design a dashboard yesterday.
It gave me three options in 4 minutes.
Clean layouts. Modern visuals. Polished UI.
Completely useless.
Because I hadn't asked the right question.
"Design a dashboard" isn't a brief.
It's a shortcut to generic output.
The real questions AI can't answer:
ā What does this dashboard need to help users do?
ā What decisions are they making here?
ā What information matters most and why?
AI is making designers faster.
But not necessarily better.
Speed without strategy just gets you to the wrong solution quicker.
This is what I see with clients now:
They show up with AI-generated mockups. Beautiful. Fast. Impressive.
But when I ask "Why this layout?" or "Who is this for?"
The answer is usually: "AI suggested it."
AI helps you execute.
It doesn't help you decide.
And deciding is still the hardest part.
That's the skill that matters.
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