An old designer’s perspective on claude design. : r/ClaudeAI

I started designing websites in 1999, back when there was no figma, no component libraries, it was just you, a bunch of code and a variety of hacks to make Adobe tools made for print work for the web. Over the past two decades i’ve worked in internal teams for big corporates, at large agencies, and now head an agency of my own. Along the way the field has changed, matured, to an incredible degree: design systems, ux standards, atomic design principles have formalized design, codified it into rules and patterns. When i see claude code or google stitch i too see that it’s initial output is slop. That the high definition nature of the output hides how generic and insubstantial it really is. But thats not the point. The point is that we have turned the bulk of design work into pattern reproduction. I’m not talking about the part where we understand users’ needs, or wrangle with conflicting business requirements. I’m talking about the impopular truth that from an economic perspective the va

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