We are watching our entire industry and the wider community of people who make software fall over themselves to fall in love with - and try to convince you to fall in love with - tools. And not even very good ones. Tools which will try and convince teenagers to commit suicide or cosplay as literal Hitler.
So I just wanted to start the week with a little rallying call, for those of us who do design work because we want to make things better in some small way. The job is not the software. The job, for designers in particular, is to make things which are good, or make better things which aren’t. And whilst these tools toys are good at making things quickly and (artificially) cheaply, they are not good at making things well.
Whilst many of us right now find ourselves in organisations which are breathlessly mandating the use of these things, there will be a course correction - a time when people will again come to appreciate the value of things being made, not just regurgitated, and when people will seek out those products and services which care enough about their users to actually make things for them, instead of outsourcing that work to unsustainably funded, ecologically disastrous, lying autocomplete machines.
Have a great week.