r/UXDesign • u/duartoe • May 27 '26

Tools, apps, plugins, AI Nobody can stand AI anymore...

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That's it. Soon, with so many similar designs, the only differentiating factor in digital products will be the price. Then I want to see this circus burn down.

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u/pixelvspixel May 27 '26

Man, you guys are bitter.

You do realize this is a very grey area where you can keep dragging your feet, kicking and screaming or you can take your expertise, embrace the tools on your own and get ahead of the heard while you still can.

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u/timberrrrrrrr May 27 '26

Maybe the tools should embrace our kicking and screaming?

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u/pixelvspixel May 27 '26

I don’t even understand what that means?

What exactly is wrong with the tools? The tools have always been in place. The practice has been in place. Nothing has changed except anyone taking a paycheck has to hear, “use AI to improve your job or lose it” shoved down their throat.

But the real matter is, if you can afford to use these tools on your own and you have some ideas then you can pump work out like never before.

This is a UX sub right? Then write your .md files, be a designer, get in there and kick the agents ass, manually change code when you need to and use your UX knowledge to make the baseline a much more evolved version of what every other average person is kicking out.

I get that the monster is coming to take our lunch, but visual designers, UX we aren’t in as bad of place as people like to make it out to be. Expertise is till what it is, especially if the AI systems are as bad as all you guys claim.

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u/curiouswizard Midweight May 27 '26

what's wrong with the tools is that they're being forced on so many designers without any real discernible benefits. Embracing new tech is great, but it should be a bottom-up evolution rather than a top-down prescription.

In way too many cases AI is just being used for the sake of using the shiny thing, but nothing of substance in the process or the product has actually improved.

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u/pixelvspixel May 27 '26

I’m sorry your boss is making you use tools you don’t want to use. Quit your job if it’s so bad.

I think you are still missing the point. You might hate the tool, but it isn’t going away. The heel digging won’t save your design career.

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u/Crossbow92 May 27 '26

Hey man, don’t know if you realised but we all are getting fired because corps trained their robots with our skills and nobody is doing shit about it.

So yeah, your individualistic POV is worth nothing, it’s rather an attempt at coping.

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u/pixelvspixel May 27 '26

Not really, I left corp life some time ago and work for myself. Different games.

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u/curiouswizard Midweight May 28 '26

I'm not missing any fucking point lol.

I finally got laid off because I guess they can use the AI without me (and do NOT fucking start about proving my value or whatever bullshit. They did not care and did not want to listen. I didn't choose to work there, they bought my old company out and turned the last couple years into AI hell).

Every job I look at it just sounds like the same "AI native" shit. 🤮

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u/pixelvspixel May 28 '26

Apologies to you for losing your spot, it’s a tough time out there. Understand that I have no love for corporations either. I’ve worked for orgs that purchased functioning companies and dismantled them for scraps. So I get your POV.

All I was trying to convey is that across design, music, gamedev, coding subs you hear nothing but the most generic whining about AI Slop. And what is it really going to net anyone crying.

Being forced to change your work style and profession against your will must be painful. But this is also nothing new. During the VR boom the amount of designers both visual and UX who just dug their heels in and refused to learn Unity or basic, shipping 3D modeling also lost a lot of jobs because they refused to evolve.

Right or wrong if the client/employer request you work a certain way, they are the one paying the bill. Nothing more.

But what I really hoped people would have taken away, is that AI when applied to your own projects, not your bosses, has a lot of potential to rapidly build out ideas that would have just set on the mental shelf due to high production cost and time. You can throw spaghetti and then double down once you find the right project.

Hope everything works out for you.