ARTICLE SUMMARY: When it comes to Artificial Intelligence you have to admit, it has put the design community on its ear. It took months to learn the creative programs you needed to produce a quality website and all that went with it, and thanks to AI, a twelve year old can do it. It’s a major shift that’s hard to ignore.
It’s scary for designers to think AI will threaten their job security, devalue their skills, and worse than that is the thought of loosing creative control to a machine.
“The death of design expertise? How AI is reshaping creative industries forever” by Hoang Nguyen takes a hard look at the reality of AI and design and what designers need to know about the roll they will have in this new technology. Topics discussed include:
- The hidden cost of artificial efficiency
- The human element in an AI world
- What this means for you
One of the biggest concerns with AI is whether we’re devaluing human creativity by making it so widely accessible. For small businesses, the dilemma is clear, why invest $10,000 in custom design when AI tools offer something that looks “good enough” for just $50. If your company is on a shoestring budget, what would you do.
This article points out the short comings of AI in UX design, the lack of human empathy, over reliance on data that may be biased or incomplete, and a lack of ethical reasoning, just to name a few. Artificial Intelligence is nothing more than a tool, a tool that a trained designer will be able to use and avoid these shortcomings and deliver the quality digital experiences that only a human creative can provide.
This is an article well worth reading by all designers. Let us know what you think in the comments.
