However, I believe this is the sort of productivity we will see in the short term, not wholesale, but in those large agencies with large stable accounts and steady budget flows. In some ways, The Grid is the hero (like the mini steel plants and mini computers.) Here is one great piece from UX Collective by Fabricio Teixeira - “ How AI has started to impact our work as designers.” Fabricio is bang on about the impact of AI and that its well-suited to do the chores like cropping images, maybe sort and tag images. So has the example of The Grid, who I refer to as a Clayton Christensen disruptive entrant. Postscript: And this about AI impact on UX Design has been discussed a lot. Its against such a scenario driven by large scale deployment of AI and related tech that the future of UX designers will unravel, as to what roles they will play. Decision making power will shift to customers (Let me know if someone proposed this, since I am blissfully unaware).
Instead of insights gathered out of noise free data, the effort will be to remove noise from the analytics. Agility is not just the agile as a process, but an attitude. Agility will be about how plugged in businesses are to their users without restrictive filters. As for business strategy, its agility will be about how its customers will define for them…not in some wood paneled boardroom or digital wall Pods to aid decision making. I do not mean process will go away, but it gets more below the hood, and intrinsic to a flexible work culture of the digital information age. Agile, Design Thinking, etc will have to give way to design execution. My premise is that Process is given overdue importance over design action. In conjunction with this, I predict that engineering performance will come to fore and UX designers will work closely with technical architects, who together will overshadow the current marketing driven/business agenda that is at a core of decision making. Product management - to envision for technology aided interfaces stemming from AI advances, generated and unsupervised ML based system interactions, predictive UX, personalized robotic services, so on.Study of cognitive neurosciences and human behaviour.If UX design in future were to include more formal studies (no pun there) viz. In such a scenario, whenever that happens in 10, 20 years from now, UX design education and training need to transform. IMO, the future of UX is likely to change - Self taught machines perhaps can soon and will iterate 1000 times faster and produce far greater variety than human history has ever. Hand crafted UI and UX design will likely transform to curation and product management aspect of UX. Then UI generators such as are the disruptors who will likely be the norm (read this about Websites that design themselves on Wired).