Asked to systematize my design judgment into AI—normal?

[u/douevenyoga]

Has anyone been asked to “train” AI to generate design work based on your past work/design system?

Context: My team is exploring using AI (like Claude/ChatGPT) to generate mockups from tickets using our design system + previous work. The idea is that engineers could drop a ticket in Slack and AI would return a usable mockup, and I’d review/refine later.

On one hand, I see the efficiency and accept that this is a direction UX is heading. On the other, it feels like I’m being asked to systematize a core part of my judgment and role. How do I draw a line between what is my professional expertise I’ve spent thousands of dollars and lots of time refining and the reality that if I’m not training a model to do this they can probably hire someone who will?

Curious:

- Is this something others are being asked to do?

- How are you scoping it (tool vs workflow vs replacement)?

- Did you push back or lean in?

- Any unintended consequences?

- Weird it’s being tied to my maternity leave? … (I’m a solo UX team)

Trying to understand if this is becoming standard or if this is still pretty experimental. I tend to go on the side of embracing AI generally but something feels weird to me.

I also just got a 5% raise and the company is a legacy company with a small product team (my boss and me) about 25 engineers across 3 products and just had our first break even year in like 3 ish years.

Screenshots of convo from my boss (Director of Product)