Why a Junior Designer Who Produced 20 Drafts in an Hour Despaired
Date
Jul 1, 2026
Classification
- Marketing/Branding/Planning/Design
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🫑 3-Line Summary
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With the development of artificial intelligence, the design profession is becoming divided into those who can quickly produce results and those who select the good ones, and the value of those with a discerning eye is rising significantly.
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The problem is that this discerning eye was built up by manually creating countless results in the past, but as artificial intelligence replaces this repetitive work, the very opportunity for newcomers to train and develop their skills is disappearing.
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You must abandon the habit of mindlessly and comfortably overlooking results generated by AI, and instead build your own ladder of growth by meticulously examining the output and recording the decision-making process behind your choices.
🥦 Insight
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The Beginner's Growth Ladder Kicked Away by AI
As machines take over tedious and repetitive drafting tasks, the immediate speed of work has increased tremendously. However, paradoxically, that bothersome repetitive work is also the most important time for beginners to develop their eye for growing into excellent professionals.
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The eye for choosing good things grows through the process of making them yourself.
The judgment to select the one that perfectly fits our brand from among countless drafts created in an instant is never developed overnight. Only someone who has personally drawn even a single button hundreds of times can instantly spot and correct the subtle awkwardness of machine-generated results.
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People who intentionally choose discomfort become irreplaceable.
The habit of simply passing through machine-provided results as is ultimately turns you into an ordinary worker no different from a machine. Even if it slows you down slightly in the short term, the training to meticulously analyze why the output turned out the way you did and to document your own intentions eventually leads to irreplaceable skills.
🥄 A spoonful of execution
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If you used automation tools for your work today, try pausing for a moment before pressing the complete button. Why not take a moment to look at the result from your own perspective and note down just one thing you might have expressed differently, such as whether there are any awkward parts or what you would have done differently?
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What the saying "Those who judge survive" is missing
Let me start with the story of a junior designer. He had an AI generate landing page mockups and received twenty in just one hour. They all looked plausible. But he stopped there. He didn't know which one to choose. He saw no reason to discard nineteen out of the twenty. It took an hour to create them, but he got stuck at the selection stage.
It all seemed plausible.
But it stopped there.
I didn't know which one to choose.
He had no reason to discard nineteen out of twenty. It took an hour to make, but he got stuck at the selection stage.
This is a recurring scene in the design industry these days.
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