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1 day agoThe Death of Digital Product Design
AI tools have disrupted product design, enabling anyone to create designs quickly without special skills.
Google recently released a new AI model, Gemini 3.1, that demonstrates great results in UI and web design tasks. I've already tested this model for web design tasks and in this article, I want to experiment with Gemini 3.1 and generate UI for a mobile application.
Instructions I created. Instructions I am continuing to hone - instructions that required me to study my own old essays, identifying what I do when I write. The sentence rhythms. The way I move between timescales. The zooming in and out from concept to detail. The instructions tell Claude how I would like ideas composed. I pull together concepts and experiences from my lived expertise to formulate a point of view - in this case, on this new AI technology.
The normative form for interacting with what we think of as "AI" is something like this: there's a chat you type a question you wait for a few seconds you start seeing an answer. you start reading it you read or scan some more tens of seconds longer, while the rest of the response appears you maybe study the response in more detail you respond the loop continues
Something's been slowly shifting in the design zeitgeist. I've been watching my feed on X and the vibe has changed. More and more, I see designers sharing finished experiments or prototypes they coded themselves, rather than static Figma files. Moving from working on a canvas to talking to an LLM. The conversation isn't "here's a design I made" anymore... it's "here's something I shipped this afternoon."
service blueprints, information architecture diagrams, and funnels are foundational tools in product design, but they're often time-consuming to create and even harder to keep up to date. But what if we hire AI to do the job, and not just a random AI tool, but... Figma Make. I've already demonstrated how you can use Figma Make for UI design exploration and quick prototyping, but this tool also allows you to generate structured design artefacts directly from prompts, turning abstract thinking into tangible visuals within minutes.