Designers work with visual artifacts like mood boards, not words. Chat interfaces force them to describe ideas verbally, which feels unnatural. Better AI tools should mimic how designers actually worked before the internet, prioritizing visual-first processes over conversation.
The chat interface is great for certain things, but it sucks for other things. Right now, for example, speaking of design, nobody wants to talk out their design. If you think about how do we understand if a design is good, we look at things. Yeah. We look at how fashion designers work. Think about mood boards. They have very visual or very tangible representations that speak to the inspiration. And here we are being like, well, how should I create a website? Let me describe it. Nobody does that. That's not actually natural in how people—
Go to the core craft. Exactly. Of the pre-internet.
And so I often look at, well, what's the most natural way that people have been doing it? Put aside whether they were doing it on the web or in digital, what's the natural way that this would be done? And then how do we get closer and closer to that?
I like that.
