LukeW | Design Futures Assembly
About a hundred senior designers and leaders from AI labs, big tech companies, and startups got together in San Francisco last week for the Design Futures Assem...
About a hundred senior designers and leaders from AI labs, big tech companies, and startups got together in San Francisco last week for the Design Futures Assembly . The public conversation about AI and design tends to live at the extremes: either everything is about to be automated or none of this works and we're killing the planet. The conversation in that room was different. Changing Tools, Changing Roles Almost all designers are using AI tools multiple times a week. The average number of AI tools in a designer's toolkit doubled in the last year. And that's just off-the-shelf tools. It does
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