From Craft to Curation: Design Leadership in the Age of AI
March 24, 2025 • 12 min read
As AI tools reshape our creative industries, a profound skill inversion is taking place. The fundamentals of design—once defined by technical mastery of tools like Figma and Photoshop—are being upended as artificial intelligence demonstrates remarkable prowess in execution. When AI can generate functional interfaces in minutes and 95% of startup code is AI-written, the designer's value is rapidly shifting from pixel-perfect production to something more essential: the human capacity for vision, judgment, and taste. Welcome to the era where curation trumps craft, and where leading with intent becomes the true differentiator in an increasingly automated creative landscape.