Hey!
Last week, I said you couldn't just ask AI to fix your UX and expect a good result.
Then I decided to challenge that statement with Claude Opus 5.5 on Ultracode (Max effort).
I gave Claude a complex app and one prompt: “Fix the UX”
Guess what… It did a better job than what my own guided UX workflow produced.
I was wrong. AI is now good at UX.
And that leaves me with a question…
What happens to UI/UX jobs?
AI was already very good at UI design, but now this!
Claude did a good enough job to allow someone with zero UX experience to launch a user friendly product.
I still see a clear role for people in research, strategy, and testing with real users. Those things still matter.
But those are not the jobs that I loved when I got into this field!
And if a smaller team could produce good work with AI, the future is not looking good for the majority of designers.
Suddenly demand got much lower than supply.
And there's something more personal here too. We spend years learning a craft. We build a career around being good at it. Sometimes we build an identity around it.
What happens to that identity if more of the work becomes something anyone can ask AI to do?
It's a strange position to be in: recommending the very tools that make me question the future of my own profession.
Maybe the job changes. Maybe the teams get smaller. Maybe parts of the work disappear completely. I don't know how far this goes, but this experiment made those questions feel much closer.
If you want to see how powerful AI has gotten at UX, I show the results side by side in my latest video. You can judge them for yourself.
Cheers,
Jad
