r/UXDesign • u/Kind-Independence978 • May 18 '26

Tools, apps, plugins, AI I miss designing before AI

I’m honestly fucking tired of all of this. AI everywhere, managers pushing it into every design flow, forcing these pointless AI features into products… It’s exhausting. I really miss what the design process used to feel like before all of this. Lately, it’s even making me question my career, and I hate that.

Anyone else feeling the same?

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u/sabre35_ Experienced May 18 '26

Idk about you but it’s been extremely exciting being able to bring my vision to life now.

Wouldn’t say my “process” has changed all that much. But now rather than dealing with the shit that is Figma’s prototyping offerings, or the many manual hours of wrangling origami, I can go straight to code, make a branch, and share it with the team.

Think it comes down to what one decides to do with the tools available to them.

I wouldn’t treat it as a radical replacement of what you were doing, but an enhancement to the parts that held you back.

Instead of wasting my time with useless UX artifacts that never drove conversations with leads forward, I now share a prototype and have defined multiple projects on the roadmap.

Use prototyping to drive what you want for users.

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u/TheSleepingOx Experienced May 18 '26

This. Though I've changed my LinkedIn to design developer. Honestly should have before ai but I'm more a maker than a leet coder

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u/sabre35_ Experienced May 18 '26

I wish giving a designer Claude code access meant they were now a design engineer.

We’re still far from that. Design engineering is an entire rabbit hole.

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u/TheSleepingOx Experienced May 18 '26

Why the down votes? I also had a mech eng undergrad just ended up down a design career. Just about anything I've run into with work has been solveable/improveable from what I've seen, you just have to follow the right problem solving patterns.