AI won't replace designers. It will take their jobs.

AI won't replace designers. By 2025, most CEOs of AI-focused companies predict that 90% of code will be AI-generated. What does this mean? Faster and cheaper development. Small teams are now building companies with huge valuations, remarkably fast.

In this environment, slow and expensive UX research — often more expensive than product development itself — becomes impractical.

So AI will take design jobs. UI/UX design as we know it is disappearing. The design job market won't die, but the skills employers value will shift.

Imagine a hiring decision: who's more valuable now — a junior designer with a year's experience using an AI-driven framework that accelerates design by 10x, or a senior designer with 5 years of expertise exclusively in Figma?

For perspective, ask designers who spent 5 years mastering Photoshop only to switch to Figma — how valuable was their previous experience?

So, what should designers do? Adapt as fast as you can. Design prototypes will mean fully functional apps where real users try new features. If a feature works, engineers push it to production. Learn code and master AI.