That's why my slogan is "I solve business problems with design" Which requires thinking and then finding solutions. You can't find solutions without thinking. Every design must be followed by concrete results!

“Design happens outside of a design tool”. Very powerful and well said. I wonder how people relying solely on AI would justify the tool’s design decisions to solve a problem, especially if the outcome is bad. There is more to design than just mindlessly operating a tool.

For me, I’m not saying AI will replace designers because I don’t understand design or because I’m bad at design - its because I know that corporations do not care about design the way we do, and they will absolutely replace designers with AI as soon as they can. And even the few they keep, the skill set will be seen as replaceable and will probably affect the value of even experienced designers in the long run. For me, it’s also just sad to see creative companies turning their back on creative customers and hoping people with no design knowledge will want to use them.

many companies are making this AI features the wrong way, AI should help the designer to do repetitive tasks, like github copilot does for developers, but not to create an entire mockup, without knowing the context of the brand or the company.

I'm glad to be part of this channel. You seem to be the only one with criteria, the other 99% of channels are the same as those who were clapping at the conference

finally someone said it. the overall drop in quality is highly noticeable, even with my limited years of experience. i spent decent time perfecting UI skills only to see mediocre UI being "good enough". last i checked, its a designer's job to uphold the standard of taste, not to dilute it just to get paid.

As a front-end developer I was often disappointed at the designers I've worked with in many projects because they didn't know shit about what they were doing. They didn't know anything about componentization, atomic design, design systems, etc... they could only draw beautiful screens but without even knowing if the UX was even good or not. They didn't predicted states for their components and I often had to adapt things to reality. Now I can finally take things in my own hands and draw the design myself. Thank you Figma.

Design will degrade with lowering competition in business sector. Nobody will care about quality of your UI if there is only 2 places to shop from.

This video is going to age well. You have mentioned that some juniors are probably going to get fired. I have one question - what do you think is going to be the future of junior and entry level positions? I am personally starting to think that I couldn't recommend anyone to try design unless they are madly in love with it. I also think that mid and senior positions will be the only ones that exist, basically an entry level position will be a senior level position. And I also think that its a markets way of self regulating by "killing" lots of juniors as and telling us that market is overflooded. And this will keep happening until ux will get a reputation of very terrible, useless good for nothing, trash, extremely hard industry. Once this reputation will set in the minds of people I assume people will not even try to get into this industry and all current designers will grow old and new companies will be in demand of designers that don't exist because they never accepted freshers and then they will be willing to take juniors again. But its just my assumptions and I could be wrong. What do you think?

it could be interesting if you talk about the drop in quality that your clients are experiencing. What is it exactly, what do they think, adapt, etc.. (cf what you said at the end of the video). Thanks !

I think that design will most likely be focused on User Behavior rather than boxes placement. If we account that the Principle of Familiarity is pretty much ingrained in the human experience, design will become like music, limited in variety but limitless in combination. And like music, the industry will go on and new blood will always be needed to refresh when things go stale.

"I don't want to use crappy products..." Even before "AI," we were already getting worried about this. When we're older-and everything is a digital interface-we'll be forced to use whatever people make. These "designs" will be mandatory. Based on how terrible most interfaces are now (paying bills, taxes, government sites, social services, transportation, parking), it's terrifying to think that it's going to get even worse-and that as a culture, we'll be moving backward. "Design" is the thinking. The process of doing the work is how we discover what matters. By attempting to offload our only real value, we're just opting out of life.

I just started learning UX/UI from the past two weeks as a beginner, and I'm concerned about Figma's recent update. What should I do? I'm getting confused after reading comments on some videos should i continue or not. I practice UI design daily, but after seeing Figma's AI capabilities, I'm wondering about the point of practicing if AI will handle everything. I'm really confused right now. Will I be able to get an entry-level job as a beginner? Plz reply my comment i want some guidance on this.

I see that AI feature is enabled in settings, but I don't see icon in design file, is this live or not? Thanks for a video!

I completely agree with you. In my particular case, I would never design something from a prompt. I always start designing based on research and analysis, go through wireframes to prototype, and always validate ideas. I think AI can give average and fast solutions, but not the best solution for a specific problem our client has. Love your content, hugs from Chile

I think we should start learning a new skill "Design Prompt Engineering"

People who don't understand design, don't value design and what's frustrating is in the past they would just appear ignorant, but now they hide behind embracing new tech, the future, AI and it's almost like a haha creative, you are replaceable! and it's like yeah sure but why go to a doctor when you can just perform your own surgery? :/

I have hope I can still land a design job, because I been a developer for the past 6 years and a designer before that for 6 years so I know how to problem solve and work with developers. Still I get pessimistic at times about AI and the state of the tech industry, so I like your take here.

As a junior designer trying to break into the industry this Figma AI release was really scary to me. There are not many design jobs for juniors and a ton of competition for these jobs already, but honestly this video made me feel better about this whole thing. Am I a drag and drop designer without critical thinking and creativity skills? No. Can I explain my design decisions? Yes. I still have room for improvement, but thank you for making me realize that I still have a chance to make it even with this release out there. Also to anyone who sees this comment please opt out of training this. It's going to hurt the next generation of designers and it is already so hard to stand out just because of the mass of people who label themselves as designers.

While I agree with the sentiment at first-principals, these problems with AI tools will quickly become resolved. A core part of UI/UX design, is invoking an emotional response in users. While the AI tools are rudimentary and trivial at the moment, we'll see more powerful functionality when we can have these tools conduct market research, autonomously conduct AB tests & ingest user feedback, and continuously iterate at a rapid pace. A large part of this I believe is dependant on AI driven systems developing an understanding of human psychology that humans cannot match due to biological restrictions. Connecting the dots between driving human behavior using psychology based principles and integrating these principles into a UX is what the best designers get paid for, but we'll very quickly see AI systems outperforming these individuals, not due to a lack of talent, but simply due to the biological constraints of the human brain.

AI designs will make AWWWARDS sites look like a good idea.

hey , should i learn ui/ux in 2024 for 2025 , am thinking of getting a freelance out of it in 2025 , please brother answer me , should i learn or not , am also planning to learn code but firstly this , what should i do , please answer? I am thinking that the market is oversaturated and I'll be not able to get freelance job on platforms like fiverr or upwork. What should I do? Should I learn , invest my every 5h/d or not ? till dec2024 ?

One of the best videos I ever watched since the latest Figma updates!

I am a ui ux designer and on my yt channel I show my design work. Big part of my videos is to show the process before I move a single pixel in figma and like you say that critical thinking part will have companies eventually coming to us for consultation

Michal is an OG, and this is what I also try to tell people. Tool is a tool, your knowledge and experience is irreplaceable

For whatever profession AI will affect, it will only change the way the profession is conducted. Car manufacturers introduced robots but there are still people working in the factory and the cars are still designed by human designers. Developers will still administrate code although AI can write valid code way faster than them. AI generated layout doesn't cater to the organisational brand or DS. There are heaps of things to consider when designing for a corporation or organisation, you can't just press a button and get an advanced layout catering to the specific needs discussed with stakeholders. AI can't interview the users and discuss plans with all the parties involved in a design project - or redesign something to improve a ton of things only humans know what is. And then there's the constant maintenance, keeping accessibility up to date etc. If you are a freelancer designing very small static webpages or very generic mobile apps with no lifespan then perhaps AI can replace your layout work, but templates have been around for 25 years already, so the need for "an adult" is obviously still there. I remember when the template providers came about, some corporations bought into it, but after purchasing a website template they called a designer to re-design the whole thing, and they needed to implement local brand etc. After a short time they ditched the whole cookie cutter idea and hired human intelligence to replace the run of the mill product.

Sad future ahead, but we can always try to make it better! By doing exactly this educating the people and making them aware of the shady practices.

Where to tick the content training off? I can't find it 😅

I believe u're 100% correct with ur predictions. I think the same. But one thing that's fucking me up is that I'm a Jr. I can't even find a job, and since I'm at the lower stage possible, why would anyone pay me if they can just use AI, that even though it's not as good as me and me designs, it can be faster than me and bring'em a well-looking design (with a bunch of mistakes and problems, yet they look nice and appealing for those who don't understand about it as much as we do)?! I'm looking for a job for the whole month, and I weren't even called to an interview yet. It frustrates me so much, because I really need to work asap. I might need to improve my LinkedIn profile and finish my portfolio website as well, but yeah, it's being so frustrating. (I did finish my portfolio design, but a friend of mine, who told me that he'd code it for me, didn't. So I'm kinda delayed to do it rn and this sucks)

Drag and drop in has always been so boring. There is this indescribable satisfaction that comes from designing from scratch.

as a profesional software engineer I wanna say this. We need to stop thinking of our "use" in the space there will still be a place for pros for now but these tools are not meant for us but for those whos ideas were never able to get out there because they lack the funds to pay us. Would you design a ui for someone with a great product idea but they only could pay you 20 bucks a month? Would they even get the chance to reach a pro? These are the things that people don't see because everyone so blinded by "A.i cant replace me"

Im glad that you brought up the fact that ai is not always right. I guess this was always where platforms like figma were headed when the community is mostly based on pumping out the fastest pre-made everything

Im scared im just studying UI UX right now..

really like the tone of this video, so genuine. (although it might be because you're concerned...

Wow! so right now junior designers at risk of being replaced by AI. What will happen to seasoned designers in the next few years to come?

I hear what you're saying and agree with you. A lot of what you mentioned holds strong in today's UI/UX market. When it comes to generating original ideas and designing a product from scratch, many people I work with would really struggle to come up with innovative solutions. As for AI, we're not the only industry that will be affected. AI is coming for everyone. The fact of the matter is that you'll have to adapt to the market's needs and demands. If you're not willing to do that, then maybe it's time to consider a career change.

Wish they could do the same with front-end html. Every custom layout got destroyed because current front-end just know how to pilot Elementor.

If I’m worried about being replaced by a tool, I should be relooking at my skills. I’m not concerned at all, if anything AI has saved me so much time where I can focus on areas I truly care about where AI cannot help.

With the figma slides intro i think they plan to approach a different crowd, non pro designers (canva) and betray their core customers They already do that with devs and already said they will train rhe data on designers work so...

words of wisdom, thanks

Do you think it's going to be Bad designs for a while then then get better once so many bad designs are shipped

There's a peculiar thing that happens if AI begins to replace Juniors. There are then no Juniors. Then nobody to become Seniors and then there are no experts. You would have to throw confidence to the wind and put all trust into a system that you know may not have your own best interest at heart, because it is by all measures heartless.

AI for a while will be just a tool that will make designer's workflow more efficient. You can generate the basis of a website or product with a prompt and then continue evolving the design for your business objectives

Well there’ll be more projects by people because of ai, which will need designers. Ai isn’t only for designing. So of course designers will not be without a job. I don’t get the fear of like Hollywood and all.

All valid points. I do feel AI is a wildcard. In 5 years, it will probably be more intelligent than everyone else. It will be able to learn design in more detail than any human can. The ability to run 1000s of Simulated UI/UX will probably create fantastic work. Not in the beginning but it is coming whether we like it or not.

I think it is a fact that designs will get worse because of AI. But Im not sure that is very consequential anyway since AI is going to change how we interact with apps. It will make me work faster and be very efficient with UI. But that's the dumb work I do, the work where I can listen to a podcast, the work I can do when Im hungover. The work were I have to solve real issues, AI already also helps me sometimes, just by bouncing ideas of chatGPT. Im sure this part will improve me as well and it will improve itself with time. I don't think its such a black and white thing. Its similar with programers. AI can already do more than an intern and do it in seconds, realistically there is no need for interns anymore. Its becoming the same for UX designers. We don't know how the technology will develop, but we can probably assume that with time only the best and most experienced designers will be needed. Which sucks for a lot of designers. Probably me as well :D

More than the lack of quality, AI requires a lot of money and energy to function already in its early stage. It won't be sustainable for too long.

I used Gemini for research and note down everything for me but i realised i enjoy my self just having my note and start Sketching ideas and writing down research. And hey i still use ai 😂 just to ask it if my design choices can work or not after that i would like to test it in real environment.

We are humans and we are creating for humans.. This is kinda over looked and not mentioned by new features fanatics. It is double the time and work to fix someone's sh*t job it is just contaproductive. You are so right that design does not happen in the tool. Ps at 3:27 I was lauging out loud. Thank you for the video and the article!

the new updates are clearly just for a special kind of product manager who don't understand anything and just "prompt" their stuff and use this to talk down designers. making fast decisions for "learning it live"

❤Hey Malewicz ! What about packaging design? Its scope and future...?

You just talk facts man :) luv u!

AI is *still* a tool and it will continue to evolve. When raster graphics editor like Photoshop and CorelDraw got a lot of traction in the mid-90's they were met with a lot of criticisms too. "It's the death of traditional art", "phonies who can't use a brush or a pen will flock the market" they said. But these tools killed nothing, if anything, they became a new medium for creativity and skill. Just like PS and CD, AI is still a tool. And we can use it at our advantage. Bear in mind that I'm talking about AI that can give you insights on user data and design patterns that actually work (which you can use to solve something). But when the *design process* starts and ends with AI, you're not solving anything at all.

I don't know how much it matters. I've had managers make decisions that delayed projects for months to a year. One person can make a whole lot of work just wheel spinning.

I don't know why there's so much hype about AI coming to Figma when Uizard is already available in the market and is even better.

this isn't much different from Canva. in fact, Canva is probably a bigger design industry disruption than AI so far

These things will be used for low level prototyping. People will end up believing they're product developers and will rush to investors 🤣 What happens with these things is saturation, loss of quality, I agree. I do see the end if the mid and expert level don't realise that they need to stop training these models because essentially the figma design team probably embedded design guidelines into their figma AI. It will never be crappy in the sense of unaligned things etc, wrong typo hierarchies etc. For now it creates lorem ipsum designs. I've not worked with this AI and I wonder if i should. Does the input handles specific and elaborated content well? I would be more scared if the AI becomes a methological interviewer to get the core concepts of design, doing the research part as well.

currently it's designers/programmers/writers training AIs so they can be replaced by the same AI soon. We're all just that dumb yes.

We are still going to have this conversation in 10 years. No designer or dev has lost their job so far due to AI. Nothing ever happens. We've had frameworks, design systems, and automation tools, website builders, design to code tools, etc ... all of this for more than a decade, and there are still junior jobs. It's just that we're in a slump right now. The jobs will come back. There will be another boom. Also, AI has plateaud and it might take several decades to see another jump in quality - or it might not happen at all. PS: Please consider that even the most sophisticated frontier LLMs cannot replace actual human copywriters. It's not even close. The AI can't even replace rawt text writing, and you think it's going to replace developers and designers?

A hypothetical/nonexistant “AI” could replace designers but current LLM powered template builders can’t

100% on point, that is way it's called design THINKING not drag&dropping ;) otherwise it's a straight path of creating a cycle where AI creates software for AI.

I feel the only people concerned with “quality” are designers. I believe businesses and users will be none the wiser to products created with AI.

bro plenty of designers are already making shitty designs. vast majority of websites for hotel sites, airport booking, "new" social media apps, i mean all of them pretty much all look the same. i mean design themes and genres exist because designers are out there copying each other, this idea that ai will make designers dumber is complete bs to me. There are multiple essays of anti-tech in design spaces that made these arguments even when photoshop was in its infancy. DESIGN/ART is about curation, thats really what seperates the pros from everyone else. if you've been designing for 20+ years you can put things together from scratch in your sleep. infact every pro ends up coming up with ingenius shortcuts cause they're tired of doing the same shit over and over again, this exaltation of "hardwork" is just something that designers/artists lean into wayy too much like a religion because they feel like they have to say that since non designers take art as a fluke. To me this is the logical conclusion of using tech in design, its supposed to make designing easy and efficient and it just is. Designers exist in its current form because of the limitations of tech which creates the scarcity and demand. tech through photography wiped out the need for illustrators in media which created a new industry and its looking like ai will do the same to some design jobs. the whole anti-ai thing is hypocritical when you can go on ui inspo sites like dribble and find designs that look pretty similar to each other.

I ask the same about it on my head. I m glad I get here without AI....

I believe that design quality droped because clients, shareholders and bosses want the job quarter of time after covid period and ai . Especially everyday tech news related Ai showing as every job can done in 5 minute for hungry bosses

i might switch to penpot, it's foss!

True.. But must practice practice practice practice 🎉

Anything that becomes easy to make, will gradually become garbage. Like the music today.

Ai in it's current form and how it's done just isn't viable for generating professional level designs, instead what i think the industry should be focused on is creating ai tooling centered around helping designers do work more efficiently; stuff like automated accessibility and guidelines checks woule benefit Veterans much more than this since they probably will never use ui generators even for inspiration.

I want to be a designer, I don't want AI to generate stuff for me, accept what AI provides me without thinking.

Finally, we can find more useful jobs

the end is near just wait couple of years and boom

Thanks for shedding some light on this new downgrade. I look forward to reading your article.

This is about educating decision-makers and partnering with them. Sure, AI can help save time, but it does not produce quality content. That's why you hire professionals.

Figma release its AI tools to all influencers and solo designers and all the orgs I know including mine who pay at least 30-50x more dont have access, they have their priorities backwards lol

I just use ai to get off the ground to get starting ideas other things i want to do it myself 😀

Thinking through design problems is something I get a lot of joy from and I get paid to do it. Not sure why you’d want to have AI come in and make your job even more boring.

I think you have made a mistake here in your views of what is going to happen. It's not that Junior Designers / Devs are being replaced by AI. It's that Senior Designers / Devs are now Junior Designers / Devs because of AI. The barrier to entry has been massively lowered. And it was gatekept before because you had to have a certain amount of mental power to be able to do it. So if you could then you would be safe that not many could come in and usurp you. Now they can. And we are in the tiny infancy of AI still. At the moment they are amazing tools in the hands of skilled people. Soon they will be agents and they will check their work and keep improving it. The biggest problem I've had most of the time with my work (I'm on the dev side) is sitting and reflecting and trying to remember the techniques that I've learned which are best practices. The AI can already apply all the best practices, but you have to prompt them one by own to get them applied. Soon they will have a laundry list of checks they apply to themselves and churn it out in better and better quality. I suspect that there will still be a conductor for the project, but all of the work will be done by different specialised AI. For the icon, for the ui, for the brand, for the fonts.

To all Masters students especially 'DeSigN -oriented ' in UI/UX if you've spend a fortune to join any top schools, and if you have came across this comment, please remember I'm laughing and I am so happy , really thank you, I'll leave the rest to the AI.

That is ll good, dummy designers will design dummy designs, for dummy audience, intelligent people will keep reading books.

it’s not, yet (hopefully never)

I'd never use AI in my designs!

👏 👏 👏

Design = Love .......... AI still cant produce organic love

AI will fail 100% It is not a sustainable business model because here is the market: Either customers want to go as cheap as possible and will buy some premade templates which then are tweaked .. no designers needed Or customers want to have a top-notch product which is well thought through. In the latter case you have to understand that it is easier and faster to just do the job instead of experimenting with a prompt and hopefully get the right answer for the client

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AI is creating a mountain of stall goods and they are very similar to each other. Nothing inspires me. AI will shorten the process but it won't make you creative.

AI can not be talented it only depends on past experience.

Everyone in the arts should just fuking learn how to code. none of you complain if free versions of adobe products will harm livelihood of software developers but here you are championing not letting ai train on your designs because fuk maths and code making design easy. So basically if figma's existence depended on training ai to scrape paid design tools like adobe products in other to learn how to code figma website you'd consider that unethical, because adobe software is so sacred therefore though shalt not recreate it and make it easy for anyone to call themselves a ui designer even though they cant write a line of code to save their life.

great companies will continue using human brain for sure, mediocre companies will use AI a lot

This is just the end of creativity!

You'll be lucky if you make 50% of what you made in 2023' in 2025"...

Well time to unsubscribe and switch professions then. See ya bois.

Im already on a path of learning ux designing with a mindset of creating someting useful and functional but now im scared what should i do now ? @malewicz