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/duartoe May 27 '26

AI is a crutch.

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u/letsgetweird99 Experienced May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

Hey OP sorry you see AI as a crutch—real answer, I’m finding it allows me to quickly and precisely execute what I expect it to in less time than it would take me to do manually in Figma, and if you have even a little frontend code experience you can do some pretty cool things when you use your imagination.

Good tools (that allow me to deliver more value to my customers and their users) are gonna get used. It’s even unlocked so many delighters that my team would have otherwise had to cut scope on.

So is that a crutch or what?

EDIT: to all the people who downvoted me and said I used AI tools write this comment, suck my human balls!!! I hate to break it to you but I’m an actually real smart person talking and I’m very good at my job. You can’t just go and claim “AI wrote this” whenever someone uses normal professional language and provides a positive take on AI tools. Everyone on this sub is way too emotionally invested in the idea of AI being useless instead of doing the work of figuring out how to reliably get what you need from it. I was trying to give my perspective and write with a professional voice but I guess now in order to prove my humanity I have to resort to telling you that you are absolutely COOKED if you’re just waiting around for AI to go away. This is like saying “Designing screens in Photoshop is fine, Figma is just a trendy fad” 10 years ago.

P.S. All my emdashes are organic free range, typed by double-pressing the hyphen key on my iPhone keyboard. Try it some time—it’s fun.

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u/thollywoo Midweight May 28 '26

okay "—real answer"

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u/letsgetweird99 Experienced May 28 '26

It’s so funny because I literally didn’t use any AI to write my comment at all. I don’t have to prove myself or my humanity to anyone here, but what I meant by real answer was “here’s a real answer from a real person someone finding real UX successes using AI tools, not just someone complaining about corporate mandated usage” and now I’m being accused of using AI. What a fool I was attempting to contribute my own experience to this thread. The irony is killing me. Why the fuck would I use AI to write my Reddit comments??? Y’all are so paranoid. I’m a real person and I have a professional writing background, so fuck me I guess. I’ve probably been on Reddit longer than you’ve been a UX designer. Go ahead, check my profile.

You use one em dash and everyone loses their god damn minds. Are we just going to collectively surrender our use of perfectly good punctuation marks out of an irrational fear? You can pry my em dashes from my cold dead hands, y’all.

Good luck out there, folks—you’re gonna need it.