AI can generate renderings, but designers make final decisions, refinements, and realize designs in real spaces. Human skills like empathy, problem-solving, emotional intelligence, and spatial intuition remain essential and should be nurtured. Designers must ensure renderings are feasible for given spaces and protect client data through clear consent and disclosure around AI use. AI requires active management and performance monitoring, measured by impacts on timelines, approvals, budgets, and change orders rather than aesthetics alone. Upskilling in emotional intelligence, critical thinking, and prompt engineering is important. Building prompt libraries and reusable prompt stacks supports consistent, testable AI use in design.
Designers need to lead with their human strengths. AI tools can generate design renderings, but it's the designers who make the final decisions, refinements, and bring them to life in the real world. There's this widespread misconception that AI will replace people in most creative work. That simply isn't true. Humans still need to be kept in the loop. No technology will ever replace a well-trained designer who empathises with how people want to live and move within a space
Empathy, problem-solving, emotional intelligence, and an intuitive understanding of how spaces should be lived in are just some of the human skills to nurture. As custodians of interior design, designers also need to ensure that renderings are actually feasible in a given space. They're also custodians of their clients, and should respect and protect data privacy, too. Designers must have a clear understanding of data consent and disclosure around AI use.
AI is a tool that needs to be managed. Make sure to monitor its performance. At Decorilla, we don't just measure AI success by how many pretty renderings our tools generate. We keep a pulse on whether it's helping our designers tighten up project timelines, gain faster approvals, more strongly align with budgets, and achieve fewer change orders. Leaning into human strengths like emotional intelligence and critical thinking is one area that designers need to upskill so they can stay ahead.
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