"Your junior designer spins up a prototype in Lovable before lunch. Your PM shows you a "working" MVP built entirely with Cursor within a day. And your CEO forwards you a LinkedIn post about how AI will replace 80% of UI work by 2026. And it seems like anyone can now make an app to solve a specific problem. Has the graphical interface really died, as Jakob Nielsen provocatively suggests?"
"AI has actually revealed what was always true but easy to ignore -functional design was never enough. Check out this article from ten years ago. It's got a big headline that says, "Usability is no longer enough," and it talks about how important emotional design is. We had to focus on usability and aesthetics because of all the business and technical constraints.Now that those constraints are dissolving, we're left with a harder question: If anyone can build a functional, easy-to-use, and aesthetically ..."
Rapid low-code and AI tools enable designers and product teams to produce functional prototypes and MVPs extremely quickly, while predictions claim AI will replace most UI work. Graphical interfaces as purely utilitarian are becoming commoditized, prompting a shift away from design that focuses only on usability and aesthetics. Emotional and experiential design must take priority because functional design alone is insufficient. Past constraints forced prioritization of usability and aesthetics; as technical and business constraints dissolve, the critical challenge becomes how to differentiate products through purpose, emotional resonance, and richer user experiences beyond baseline functionality.
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