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Design graduates 'competing' against AI for jobs
Three years ago when ChatGPT was released, most of us didn’t expect
that AI would become as creative and productive as it is now. Only a few years
later, AI can assist graphic designers by automating repetitive tasks like
image resizing and background removal, generating creative assets such as logos,
layouts, and characters, enhancing existing designs by improving image quality
and suggesting color palettes, and even accomplishing whole creative tasks.
This not only allows designers to be more efficient and focus on higher-level
creative work but also reduces the need for graphic designers. It is predicted
that graphic design jobs will be one of the fastest declining roles by 2030 because
of AI. However, this is nothing new since graphic design has gone through
technological change from letterpress to phototypesetting to desktop publishing,
and now to Generative AI, and designers have adopted new technologies and
upskilled to work with them. The question is whether design schools are teaching
the necessary skills to work with AI. Also, design students, design job seekers,
and designers need to have a positive and adaptable mindset to work with AI. After
all, it is a new era that requires new skills and mindsets.
Read the article and learn how AI is affecting designers’ jobs.
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