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AI will flatten the design profession: when ten AI-enabled designers do the work of a department of a hundred, the need for higher management levels shrivels.

Drawn from what Jakob Nielsen said

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AI and jobs Whether AI displaces human work, which jobs go first, and what replaces them.

design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

management Running the place: an executive's calendar, dissent, severance, and what a manager is actually for.

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Who should design software, and how?under our view: Design is everyone's job: whoever shapes the outcome is designing, and increasingly that includes the users

What Jakob Nielsen actually said

  1. Jakob Nielsen Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group…
    When a team of 10 AI-enabled super-designers can do the work that used to require a UX department of 100, the need for higher management levels shrivels. I call this the “pancaking” of the design profession.

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