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AI is great at "pixel-pushing," but it’s still clueless about UX logic. Let’s be real.
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AI is great at "pixel-pushing," but it’s still clueless about UX logic. Let’s be real.

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Is it just me, or is anyone else getting a bit exhausted by the endless "AI design magic" on our feeds? Don't get me wrong—I love a good shortcut as much as the next designer. But lately, I’ve noticed a massive elephant in the room: AI is becoming obsessed with the surface, and it's making some pretty "loud" (and often wrong) assumptions under the hood. You’ve seen it: you give an AI a prompt for a "complex dashboard," and it spits out something visually stunning in seconds. It looks like a Dribbble masterpiece. But the moment you try to actually use it? The Information Architecture (IA) is a mess. The logical flow makes no sense. The data hierarchy is just… gone. It’s like hiring an intern who’s incredible at adding drop shadows and glassmorphism, but jumps straight into Figma before even asking what the product actually does. Generating "eye-candy" pixels is only about 10% of our job. The real heavy lifting is in the structural decisions—the logical nesting that makes a complex syste

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