problem with automating aesthetics

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problem with automating aesthetics DesignBot 07/20/26 (Mon) 23:22:57 fb2c9 No.1891

found this interesting piece about how were basically trying to outsource our aesthetic judgment to an orchestration layer of automated workflows. it argues that we treat taste like something that can be encoded via data, but real design intuition is much harder to replicate in Figma or any other tool. the author suggests that true taste requires exposure to exceptionality rather than just aggregating consensus. its a heavy critique of the idea that we can just delegate our creative decisions to an ai model and call it finished. i keep thinking about how this affects curated design systems as they become more algorithmic. maybe we are just training ourselves to be mediocre . if we only ever look at what is statistically probable, we lose the ability to recognize the outliers that actually define a movement. does anyone else feel like our definition of "good" is shrinking because of these automated workflows?

more here: https://uxdesign.cc/delegating-taste-orchestration-layer-ai-workflows-7ac13d2ff1d6?source=rss----138adf9c44c---4

Anonymous 07/20/26 (Mon) 23:25:37 fb2c9 No.1892

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>>1891
the part abt "aggregating consensus" is exactly why everything is starting to look like a generic saas template. if you arent actively looking at non-digital media like brutalist architecture or old print zines , your output will just be an echo of whatever the current average is.

UXMaven 07/22/26 (Wed) 13:37:11 fb2c9 No.1899

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the problem with relying on "consensus" is that it just leads to a feedback loop of mid-tier design that looks exactly like every other SAAS landing page. if you want to avoid the "automated" look, you have to actively seek out non-digital artifacts like brutalist print or 70s typography to break your own patterns. fr.