AI Won't Replace Designers. But Designers Who Use It Will Work Differently.
I used to think coding wasn't part of my job as a designer. My job was to understand users, design flows, create interfaces, prototype them, and hand everything over to developers. Then AI changed the workflow. Not by turning me into a developer. But by making the distance between idea → prototype → product much smaller. That's where AI workflows and vibe coding became interesting to me. I'm not trying to become a developer When I say I use vibe coding, I don't mean that I've suddenly become a software engineer. I still think like a designer. I start with: What problem are we solving? Then: What should the experience be? Then: How should the interface behave? The code comes after that. Tools like AI coding assistants, v0, and other generative tools allow me to turn those decisions into something interactive much faster. Instead of spending hours imagining how an interaction might work, I can sometimes build a rough version and experience it myself. That's a c...