"I feel really bad for our design Leader. We've all been using Claude design and Figma Make, and it's really tough for him to justify things."
"Not in producing design work. Justifying their work. This was a company embracing AI for survival. From Claude Code to Figma Make to Cursor across the org. They were churning out designs and laying off the design team in the same quarter."
"But here was the wild thing: they knew the designs weren't good. They knew the design debt was piling up faster than they could ship. Given the choice between fixing what was breaking and generating features that might get them acquired, they built new ones every time."
""At the very least, I wish we had someone to minimize these problems." The VP said. That's the design responsibility that's emerging. And it runs entirely on language. The problem has only grown with AI"
A product VP described design leadership struggling not with producing design work, but with justifying it. The company adopted AI tools across the organization, generating designs quickly while also laying off the design team in the same quarter. The organization recognized that the resulting designs were not good and that design debt was accumulating faster than it could be shipped. When choosing between fixing what was breaking and generating features that might lead to acquisition, new work was created repeatedly. The VP expressed a wish for someone to minimize these problems, pointing to an emerging design responsibility that runs on language. The problem has grown with AI adoption.
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