"Where do we stand now? Emotions run high and some feel strong about the one solution to our current predicament. Designers that are strong visual designers say: taste will save us. It's the last frontier in our fight with AI. With endless options generated by AI, someone will still need to decide which option is best. That would be us, with taste as our unfair advantage."
"Zooming out, where we stand now is where we've always been. Nothing new. This is another version of "should designers code" or not. Or this is "dribbble designers" vs. UX designers all over again. Only difference - there is AI in the mix now and "bootcamp designers" serving as villains. Whatever way you see it, we are fighting against ourselves all along. AI does not care. Bootcamp designers are simply people (designers), same as us, trying to feed their families and find fulfilment."
Designers are debating whether taste or empathy will make them indispensable in the age of AI. Visual designers argue taste is needed to choose the best options among endless AI-generated variations. UX designers argue empathy and user research validate propositions and align outcomes with user tastes. The debate echoes past rifts like whether designers should code and the Dribbble versus UX divide, with bootcamp designers cast as villains. AI itself is indifferent to these disputes. Internal fighting among designers undermines unity, and both taste-focused and empathy-focused arguments contain flaws.
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