Comment by keyle
1 day ago
I'm still not sure where I stand with this. It reminds me a bit of the skeuomorphic days, where we went to flat design overnight and thanked the designers goodbye. Developers got tired of waiting for a button sprite to be designed for the website. In a way it was cleaner, leaner and faster. But we lost a lot of good work in the process (I was one of those designers).
I think where I stand is AI for supplementing, yes, for replacing, no. Extend from existing work, yes. But if you distance yourself so far from the art that you don't know how it's made, you'll be flying while running out air.
> It reminds me a bit of the skeuomorphic days, where we went to flat design overnight and thanked the designers goodbye
This didn't happen. Even if you consider only the 'aesthetic' part of design and ignore function (impossible, but for the sake of the argument) — the striving for reduction and removal of unnecessary real-world metaphors was a natural evolution driven by designers, not PMs, not engineers, nor any higher-ups. 'Flat' design was in hindsight inevitable, but you can't just get rid of decorations, ornaments and gradients and call it a day. All major digital products were and are designed by designers. Not by engineers who got tired of waiting for a button sprite.