This is just a really cool way of building.
I'm impressed. I tried Google Stitch but it was slow and useless. Sad, because Gemini has a pretty good creative flair, ironically enough.
But jeez, is it buggy, slow and unintuitive at times.
Complete shift in google's old engineering culture of high quality - they seem to be shipping quickly in favor of stability
Except it is. Plenty of places will say this is all good enough and not hire, or even lay off, the UI/UX person. I've seen this firsthand.
The average becomes the same shade of gray. Familiarity breeds contempt. New types of design will emerge that are expensive to copy, because differentiation drives competition
Why do people feel that each and every tool they use needs its own unique look and feel? And why are people willing to pay more for that? In some cases, sure. For my smart sprinkler app.. I don’t give a damn if it looks like 1000 other apps.
These tools don’t solve big design problems, but they do resolve all the little design decisions often left up to devs at implementation time.
Now, if I could only get a model to draw arch diagrams....
2. Long term you can expect the minimum bar for aesthetically pleasing design to be raised and there to be overall less demand for human produced generic design.
3. This will mean all designers get pushed into the same corner or complex, unique, uninferable design and trying to fight it out.
If every designer takes less time to do their job, you need less designers. There’s no getting around that simple math.
So, less jobs for sure, but not like 50% less jobs.
But I don't think that's how it plays out. I think you still need to imbue talent, skills and direction into these tools and I don't see management, who did not have the skills initially, being able to do that task across multiple business aspects and agents simultaneously.
I think for now and perhaps until/if AGI, the sweet spot is having skilled individuals with experience using the tools to known good results. You still can't really delegate to the tools, you have to work with them. The benefit to management that a human has is they can delegate to a human, even when they completely lack the skillset they are delegating.
Or the design may be part of a larger task that has been delegated to a bot.
This is also true for entire applications. I vibecode apps in 2 days then say: is this what you want? Then they are enthusiastic and I will say that it will take 2 to 4 weeks to properly create it. They are always confused and then I start teaching them the conceptual basics of how apps are built and what corners are cut. Clients usually listen because they know we’re near the finish line
Before these tools, when a client wanted a specific section built, we'd spend hours hunting references across the web. The output always ended up feeling like a mesh of 2-3 sites, never fully unique. Then we'd burn more time explaining the intent to the client's designers and devs, usually with multiple rounds because words don't convey layout well.
Now we throw a quick mockup together in Claude or Lovable and send it. The designer gets the idea in 30 seconds instead of a 45-minute call, then pushes it further with their own taste and the client's branding.
It's not replacing designers. Most clients don't know what they want until they see it. These tools collapse that feedback loop from weeks to minutes, so the designer actually spends their time on the parts that need human taste, not on decoding a vague brief.