AI tools are everywhere now—text, image, voice, even layout. It’s tempting to use them for everything, but what’s emerging isn’t just automation. It’s curation. Designers are beginning to treat AI like a collaborator: a way to generate sparks, not shortcuts. That nuance is becoming the new creative advantage.
Last week, I used an AI tool to generate a batch of icon concepts. Most of them were unusable, but one had a strange asymmetry that caught my eye. It wasn’t polished, but it had potential. I cleaned it up, refined the geometry, and turned it into the hero element of the final design.
🤖 AI isn’t the end of creativity. It’s the mess that sparks it, if you know how to sift through it.