> After 2.5 years of insane hype, there’s no evidence that current AI is making the design process faster
I am designing prototypes faster today with LLMs this is just flat out wrong. And it's not really 2.5 years it's more like the last 6 months, GPT5, sonnet 4.0 and 4.5 have made this stuff viable to seriously use.
> I am designing prototypes faster today with LLMs this is just flat out wrong
One thing I've wondered and not been sure of, is that you can see productivity boost in parts of the process, but overall the end to end process doesn't seem to be getting done faster.
I'm not sure of this, but it's what I've observed at work.
You might be designing a lot of prototypes faster, but are you landing on something good quicker? Are you getting the final product out faster?
> You might be designing a lot of prototypes faster, but are you landing on something good quicker? Are you getting the final product out faster?
Yeah, but not because of the LLM, more because I have a strong opinion and multiple design options I want to get in front of customers asap. Instead of coding a UI myself which I can do, or working with an engineer, I can try a bunch of stuff, show it to customers early and see what resonates.
And this speaks to the whole AI hype and tendency to shove it into everything. It’s just a tool. When we do build stuff that uses AI it has to be because we find a problem worth solving and the solution characteristics happen to align with LLM’s, not because we actively want to use the tech and shoehorn it in.
Basically replacing showing a UI made in figma with a UI made with claude code or figma make, to show a customer see what they think and then throw away, not to put in production ever.
Perhaps it is finally true this time, but the AI hype machine has been making this very same claim for years now.
You'll have to understand if we insist on tangible results before buying that Kool-Aid in bulk.
I wonder how much of the stuff that actually takes up the time of the people we call "designers" to do their jobs is something our current crop of LLMs is good for. If it's 90% then LLMs could make you a 10x designer. If it's 10%, LLMs could make you a 1.11x designer (minus the time it takes to fiddle around with the LLM, of course).
> After 2.5 years of insane hype, there’s no evidence that current AI is making the design process faster
I am designing prototypes faster today with LLMs this is just flat out wrong. And it's not really 2.5 years it's more like the last 6 months, GPT5, sonnet 4.0 and 4.5 have made this stuff viable to seriously use.