The faster we commodify design the faster we can get back to some sane consistent normal interfaces. Only the very biggest platforms (e.g. Google, Microsoft, Apple) should be spending any time on "design systems".
Imagine if a designer were hired to custom design the lightswitches in every building. We need to get back to off-the-shelf interfaces and stop wasting smart people's time reinventing UI widgets.
> Like what they have some superior knowledge or ability to design ?
No, but they have the scale where that level of specialty makes sense. McDonald's has food chemists on staff, but the local burger joint does not.
> what if we said lets stop innovating before apple or any of these became a thing
It's important for any organization to know what its competitive advantage is and where to spend its innovation tokens. D.R. Horton is the number one homebuilder in the United States, but they don't make their own light switches.
> No, but they have the scale where that level of specialty makes sense. McDonald's has food chemists on staff, but the local burger joint does not.
Now they do, they didnt always, you have to start from somewhere, you always start small you dont just become a huge company instantly. Also wtf kind of an analogy is that ? Oh yeah chemists never innovate on your own or at a small scale we have big corpos doing it so you guys can stop now thanks
I think you have heard the rather famous quote "Its better to be a pirate than join the navy", small scale stuff can move a lot lot faster than some huge conglomerate.
I agree that not everyone needs to roll their own design but i think your conclusion is rather idiotic.
I think a big part of the reason AI is so divisive and only declining in popularity, is because much of the discourse is shaped by mid to senior career SWEs who fantasize about putting everyone who's not a mid to senior career SWE out of work. People who want to replace everything we like with streamlined slop and want everyone we love struggling to get by. Everyone is inessential except the guy who just sits there telling Claude "can confirm, looks good ship it" who of course isn't deserving of even a paycut
Is AI declining in popularity? There are some surveys where people say they don't like AI, but datacenter construction and utilization tell a very different story.
Imagine if a designer were hired to custom design the lightswitches in every building. We need to get back to off-the-shelf interfaces and stop wasting smart people's time reinventing UI widgets.