AI can design an app now. Are designers redundant?
AI can now draft a screen, write the button labels, and turn a sketch into a clickable prototype in minutes. So here is the question every designer has quietly asked at 2 a.m.: are designers now redundant? To answer it honestly, we have to separate two things people often mix up: producing design artefacts and doing design. AI automates the output of design—screens, copy, prototypes—not the decisions behind it. When producing a draft becomes cheap, the bottleneck moves to judgement, context, an…