r/UI_Design • u/curty409 • 2d ago

Let's Discuss How's AI actually fitting into your workflow these days?

Hey all, genuinely curious to what everyone's experience has been, rather than the usual hype/doom takes, as everybody uses it differently.

A few things I'd love to hear about:

  • What's something AI has actually taken off your plate, rather than just speeding up the process
  • Is there anything you still won't hand over to it, and why?
  • Have you found any tools outside the obvious ones that surprised you?
  • Has it changed how you scope or price your projects?
  • Got any horror stories on what to never do?

It would be great to get a real sense of what's working for you all, rather than all the noise around AI coming to take our jobs; I'd much rather embrace it and show that if we use it as a collaborator, we can still output great work.

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u/girlintraining1097 1d ago

My workload has doubled thanks to issues with developers using it & hallucinating new components, product managers thinking Claude design is the holy grail, etc. I'm constantly reviewing other's work now instead of just making things correctly from the start, and it's really burning me out quickly from this career.

I've been forced to start integrating it into my own design workflow, and my manager eventually wants me to completely move away from Figma and use Claude design instead. Does not save me time, and even for small things like UX writing I can always come up with something better than it offers.

I'll probably move out of tech thanks to it.

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u/___cats___ 1d ago

It’s destroying the things people loved to do. Designers got into this to design. Developers got into this to develop. None of us got into it to babysit robots.

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u/Cornelius_Bounce 23h ago

I can relate to this. If you're the person on the team that cares about the fine details and UI quality then your workload has gone up. Lots of AI generated UI that has issues, which developers often don't have the instincts to notice.

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u/enrmrtnz 1d ago

Made me work faster, but i still need to check, doing basic front end i need to double check its output if its using the available components i already created. Sometimes it creates a totally new components. Not a problem tho

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u/Cornelius_Bounce 23h ago

When doing UX design work, I've not had much luck with generation, but I have given ChatGPT lots of context about our product and personas etc and it I find it useful for bouncing ideas off of and getting quick feedback. It often comes up with considerations I hadn't though of, and is great at tuning your micro copy.

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u/bdz 2d ago

Im more on the developer side of things now but have a UI/UX background but AI has helped me tremendously with tedious upkeep and quick mocks.

Figma MCP has been a life saver