I have been designing for banks for over 10 years. Now I build everything from scratch with Claude, Midjourney, and PHP. This is not theory. It is what I do every day.
Typography is probably the hardest thing to explain to an AI. It can suggest combinations that technically work but technically working and communicating what you need are two completely different things.
I finished a visual concept presentation for a client. Images from Midjourney, copy from Claude, AI-validated flows. Before the meeting I had to decide: to say or not to say I used AI.
I always hated synthesizing research. Reading hours of transcriptions looking for patterns is exhausting. I discovered that Claude completely changes that equation without replacing human analysis.
Someone asked me if I would hire a junior designer today. The honest answer is not simple because AI eliminated the tasks where juniors were trained. The ladder broke and nobody is building a new one.
Cloudflare released a tool that measures how ready your site is for AI agents. My blog scored 50/100 without frameworks, without APIs, without OAuth. Here is what I implemented and what I ignored on purpose.
A real project, a complete redesign of a banking dashboard using AI at every stage. No names but the process exactly as it happened. Research with Claude, exploration with Midjourney, execution in Figma.
I spent years building design systems for financial companies. When AI started generating complete interfaces in seconds the first thing I thought was not how pretty but how chaotic.
My process in Figma no longer looks like it did a year ago. AI slipped into every step of the workflow and what used to be a canvas is now an orchestrator where everything comes together.
It was a Tuesday. I was working on a visual proposal and in a three-line prompt I generated something that looked better than mine. Not slightly better. Much better. That is how the hardest week of my design career began.
Three months implementing Generative Engine Optimization on a blog with vanilla PHP. Eight cards. Real data. Code. And an interactive tool nobody else has.