As a designer in both industrial design and UX design, I’ve seen talk in the community expressing everything from fear of being replaced by AI to brushing off AI as a “neat gimmick” (both opinions I think are quite misinformed). IMO, AI is going to be incredibly impactful in this field, and the best thing for designers to do is find out how best to integrate it into their workflow.

My current issue with tools I’ve seen is lack of control. The results seem too unpredictable at this point. Are there any AI tools right now that allow a better degree of intentionality on part of the designer? For example, I’m thinking if an industrial designer wants to sketch a new backpack concept - they draw the general shape/outline of what they want, then feed a moodboard or reference images into the tool, and it spits out versions of a backpack that follow the outline as a guide but with the material and aesthetic from the reference images. Then if they don’t like a specific area, they highlight it and can make specific modifications.

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I’m surprised at the hate, even small travel mice create a super annoying bulge in any slim computer case I’ve had. Idk how well this works in practice actually but I believe its a very good problem to try to solve.