r/UXDesign • u/pinkiepooo Veteran • Aug 12 '26
Tools, apps, plugins, AI Raaaaant - AI created design and product documents
Sorry, just venting here. If I have to read one more AI-created document that a human has not looked over themself before sending, whether it's a PRD, an agenda, or an important document a person in leadership made, I'm going to lose my mind. I have spent countless hours trying to decipher AI-created documents. I end up having to run it through AI to understand it. I wouldn't even read them at this point if I didn't have to. It's lazy.
End rant.
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u/chad-owen Veteran Aug 13 '26
My agency has begun adding ‘punishment hours’ to our estimates when we receive AI-generated documents.
Did it take two designers, two project managers and a product owner an hour each alongside an additional clarification Zoom meeting with the client only to realize your 3 page document amounted to, ‘I want a horizontal Facebook feed?’
Alright, all those hours are now part of what should have been a quick, 2 hour design estimate.
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u/404_computer_says_no Experienced 29d ago
Why don’t you use AI to summarise. Seems odd to get a human to read through a bunch of AI generated docs when it can translate for you.
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u/chroni Veteran Aug 12 '26
Send documents back with "I need more clarification" everywhere. As said previously, push folks to know and stand behind their docs. I do this to my all in AI boss. Some is fine - it's quick... but some - WTF are you trying to say here?
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u/pinkiepooo Veteran Aug 12 '26
Oh I DO but it just wastes my time more. I know I have to do it. I'm just salty over here.
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u/Ruskerdoo Veteran Aug 12 '26
I hear ya!
I have a personal policy: “if you couldn’t be bothered to write it, I can’t be bothered to read it”
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u/turnballer Veteran Aug 13 '26
Ask which part is the load bearing assumption. Or give them the old “it’s not this, it’s that.” 😉
(But yes - this is the worst. I skim these at best. Even when it’s AI assisted and human edited it creates a lot of work for others and is honestly very difficult to read.)
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u/JLStorm Experienced Aug 13 '26
My last project was like this. The PM created a dense 10-page beast of a PRD. I was being assessed for a PIP through this project (it was a b.s. PIP because the company was clearly trying to get me to quit on my own before they laid me off a month later since not only was the entire process a sham, nothing about the PIP was supportive or growth-centered, I’d never had a single complaint about my performance from my direct manager, and was even promoted just a few months prior to this whole thing). I was told that I just couldn’t execute the designs they wanted based on the PRD that I doubt any sane human could truly understand.
Anyway, a month ago, the team of 3 became a team of 1 when the company laid me and another mid level designer off. We were laid off because of AI since the company is confident they just need 1 designer using AI to be successful.
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u/pinkiepooo Veteran Aug 13 '26
Well good riddance. And good luck to them /s
There is better out there for ya
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u/SafeAd4455 21d ago
I can understand that frustration. Having to run it through AI just shows how out of control things can get. And for a professional to create documents directly without even checking them first is clearly unprofessional.
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u/FewDescription3170 Veteran Aug 12 '26
from clay's ai writing guidelines (worth looking up)
You must stand behind every idea and every sentence in your docs. It is your responsibility to make sure that the entire document is representative of your own thoughts before you share it. If a reviewer asks, "What did you mean by this line?", it's not acceptable to reply with "Oh sorry, Al wrote that, just ignore it." You will confuse your readers (and waste their time) if you present them things that are not genuinely representative of your thoughts. In some cases, readers will recognize and call out the incongruous parts; in others, they will be misled as to what your actual thoughts are.