WHAT AI CAN'T DO: ESSENTIAL DESIGN SKILLS FOR THE AI ERA

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

AI tools excel at generating polished outputs but cannot determine what problems actually need solving or push back on misguided briefs. While AI can create beautiful individual elements, it struggles to navigate organizational politics, build stakeholder relationships, and engage in the human diplomacy required to ship good design. AI also falls short at systems thinking that scales across multiple products and timeframes, as it optimizes for immediate outputs rather than sustainable long-term outcomes.