AI can speed up UX work by suggesting conversion-focused components like trust badges and social proof, but designers still do the irreplaceable work: user interviews, synthesizing research, interpreting stakeholder goals, and making responsive layout decisions that align with brand strategy.
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What's one way AI is changing the role of UX designer? It's interesting because I see a lot of companies starting to lean on AI. I've seen, you know, companies doing layoffs in preparation for AI, but I do think that a lot of, like, there's, there's a lot of context that's needed for UX design. And I think, I mean, I just haven't seen that in in AI's ability to create. I haven't seen AI talk to a user, get their feet— get— or talk to users to do user research through user interviews, uh, synthesize their data, utilize different competitive resources, know what the stakeholder wants, know how it's going to make money for business, keep the brand alignment, and also You know, lay it out in different breakpoints. Like I haven't seen that. And I do think there are other less contextual, uh, things that AI will become useful for. And I think the, the ability to leverage AI to get information on practices that should already be there, or documentation that should already be there. For example, if I wanted a high converting e-commerce landing page, product page, we're talking about a product detail page. I would want to know from, you know, AI what metrics or what things should be there to help it to be higher converting. It might suggest trust badges, it might suggest social proof, it might suggest X amount of images of a certain quality, some kind of description. It can give me the components or the pieces and the details needed for that page, but I still have to put them together and I still have to get those things, right? I have to like, put it together. And depending on the context of what that product is, there may be more to it. There may be some backstory. There may be a how it works that's necessary. Uh, laying it out and lining— aligning with the rest of the product's patterns. That's where we're going to need the designer to, to put all that information, synthesize all this information together so that we have a, a successful product.
