"We've spent years perfecting our craft, only to watch the last couple of years turn our industry into an open buffet. 'Inspiration' has been replaced by scraping. 'Style' has been reduced to a prompt. As designers, we've been told to embrace the future. Nobody mentioned that the future would be built on the backs of our un-credited, un-notarised, and unprotected work."
"I'm tired of seeing the world's best creators leave their doors unlocked in a neighbourhood full of scavengers. It's time we stop treating our intellectual property like a footnote and start treating it like the high-value asset it actually is."
"We used to rely on an unwritten rule - you don't just lift someone's layout, tweak a border-radius, shift the HEX value a little, and call it your own. In the last 18 months, that code hasn't just been broken. It's been shattered."
Designers have spent decades perfecting their craft, but recent changes have turned the industry into a system where others take work without proper recognition or legal protection. Inspiration has been replaced by scraping, and style has been reduced to simple prompts. Creators are frustrated that the future is being built on uncredited, unnotarized, and unprotected labor. The lack of safeguards leaves top creators vulnerable, as if their work is left unlocked for scavengers. A former unwritten rule against lifting and lightly modifying designs has been broken, with the code now shattered rather than merely weakened.
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