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The current design ideas in MS products are terrible so I doubt how much AI can help that.

I AM curious to see how design tools evolve to work with all this new AI tech being integrated. I wonder how long is left before pixel pushing is just for final polish and a designer's role shifts to focus on properly explaining the nuance of a problem to a chatbot.

Soon we'll all be Celery Man (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maAFcEU6atk).

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>The current design ideas in MS products are terrible so I doubt how much AI can help that.

you mean - the problem with Microsoft is they have no taste?

Some divisions seem to have a coherent visual design strategy like Office and, to a lesser extent, DeDiv (though obviously hamstrung by lacking time to update all the old dialogs). The Windows Org, though, is a mess - and I also fault the upper-execs for not bashing their heads together.

I think there’s only been two points in the company’s history when the stars aligned and all their main products (Windows, Office, Visual Studio) were aesthetically coherent: 1998 and 2005.

Yes. And I mean that in a BIG way.

In the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their product?

Dall-E, could you add a hat wobble to that?

.... And a Flarhgunnstow?

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