Survey on design & AI right now:

  1. Roles are changing (correct)

  2. Expectations are changing faster than company policy (interesting)

  3. Learning is still happening bottom-up: - designers are figuring this out from each other vs from above (interesting)

Ending with:

Designers bring something unique to the table: user empathy, taste, an inherent sense of what to build and what not to build, delight, and the discipline to care about positive outcomes rather than just more software.

# Jun 1, 2026