"I was experimenting with Bolt, Cursor, and Figma Make. I wasn't trying to prove a point, just testing and exploring. Then I watched them: generate a full flow in seconds, fix spacing and layout without me touching a single frame, rewrite UI copy that looked better than my first drafts, translate a quick sketch into a clean interface. All the grunt work - gone."
"I had a moment of stillness where it hit me:If these tools can do this today, what will they do in six months? In one year? What will be left of my role as a product designer if my value is execution? Everywhere we go, We hear reassuring things like below: ''AI is not going to replace design, a person using AI will.''"
AI-powered design tools can generate full flows, fix spacing and layout, rewrite UI copy, and convert sketches into clean interfaces, eliminating much executional grunt work. Rapid improvements provoke concern about tool capabilities in months and years and the future relevance of designers whose primary value is execution. Common reassurances present AI as an augmenting skill or empowering users, but such statements are incomplete. Designers need to re-evaluate and emphasize higher-order contributions such as strategy, user research, ethics, domain knowledge, complex decision-making, and collaborative leadership to maintain professional value.
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