Michael Riddering
American product designer known as Ridd, who wrote the Design Tactics newsletter from 2021 to 2024 and runs the Dive Club design podcast.
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Their wordsI believe AI is going to place a premium on “taste” for designers.
↗Design Tactics #18 — AI and the designer of the futureridd.substack.com 1st of 8 in this piece
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Their wordsthe current state of AI tooling mostly sucks. We have a long way to go before I’m using UI-generation tools in my day to day.
↗Design Tactics #18 — AI and the designer of the futureridd.substack.com 2nd of 8 in this piece
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Their wordsBut when output is essentially uncapped, our value is tied directly to the quality of our ideas.
↗Design Tactics #18 — AI and the designer of the futureridd.substack.com 3rd of 8 in this piece
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Their wordsAnd that’s why I believe AI is going to reward designers who have a strong product sense
↗Design Tactics #18 — AI and the designer of the futureridd.substack.com 4th of 8 in this piece
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Their wordsAI is going to empower anyone to design, code, write SQL queries, build automations, etc. And that’s going to make the lines between traditional roles on a product team pretttty blurry…
↗Design Tactics #18 — AI and the designer of the futureridd.substack.com 5th of 8 in this piece
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Their words"Should designers learn to code?” is now the wrong question. Because the answer, in my opinion, is unequivocally “no”. Learning syntax is very low ROI when AI can write it for you.
↗Design Tactics #18 — AI and the designer of the futureridd.substack.com 6th of 8 in this piece
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Their wordsBut the value of “technical literacy” has never been higher. Learning how code and data actually works is one of the best ways you can invest in your future skillset.
↗Design Tactics #18 — AI and the designer of the futureridd.substack.com 7th of 8 in this piece
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Their wordsNow that I see what is possible with AI, I’ve never felt more conviction that the most valuable designers will be the ones who can build their ideas.
↗Design Tactics #18 — AI and the designer of the futureridd.substack.com 8th of 8 in this piece