Three radical futures for design: AI shipped to prod, headless services, and pixel-stream UIs
vinvan · x · 2026-11-04
The 2023 consensus that AI could only do initial design exploration is breaking down. The author outlines three radical futures: 1) like software factories, people accept LLMs shipping AI designs straight to production without review; 2) generative UI takes off and most services become headless, making the job 'influencing what UI the LLM shows'; 3) generative UI becomes 100% pixel streams (video). Designers must ensure these changes benefit humanity and stay fun — which requires purpose-built tools for exploring and reasoning about latent space.
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