AI adoption and the slow erosion of design idealism

How years of client work, deadlines, and professional practice reshape a designer’s relationship with emerging technology. Photo by K. K. on Unsplash I was having lunch with a couple of friends the other day. Both are designers around my age, in their early forties, and have been working in the profession for roughly as long as I have, about 20 years. As you might expect, our conversation…