Are we actually using AI in our work and how pervasive is it?
I’d love to know to what extent people are using it. My feeling is that design operations, especially in larger organisations, are more resistant to it.
If you work for a company designing, rather than as a freelancer, how prominent is it actually in your organisation?
Personally, working in an agency, we’ve been focusing not on how we can leverage AI in our work, but instead focusing how we can make design outcomes more efficient through the use of more deterministic boilerplate design systems, atoms, section templates (now using slots).
We’ve managed to get building a whole website complete with bespoke branding using our design system (variables and components) to just a few days once we’ve ideated on concept and have a strong direction. In my mind, AI in workflows are at the end of the day about speed, so if we can achieve that in an environment that’s less prone to hallucination or to average design that’s a good thing.
How is everyone else handling/using AI? Is there a silent majority of designers who are plucking along BAU despite the these AI tools being available?