Product Design

Is brand consistency still a designer's job when AI can generate on-brand variants infinitely?

Is the handoff between design and engineering dead now that AI can generate code directly from a design file?

How do designers develop taste at all if AI removes the repetitions that used to build it?

How do we price/value design work when the artifact is nearly free but the judgment behind it isn't?

Is pushing pixels still a job when AI generates production-ready screens from a prompt?

Who maintains taste in a design system when every contributor can generate "good enough" components themselves?

What changes for product design with AI?

When any client can generate a photoreal room in minutes, what's left of the interior designer — taste, or the buildable/spec'd/priced reality behind the render?