What happens when the entity that designs everything is itself being designed by machines?
I need you to pause for a moment.
Think about the last time you sat in a strategy meeting where someone said, “We need to embed design thinking across the organisation.” You nodded. Everyone nodded. Because we all know the mantra by now: design isn’t a department; it’s a capability. It’s not a phase; it’s a mindset. It’s not something you do; it’s something you are.
But here’s the question:
If integrated design means design is integral to all aspects of the organisation, what does that look like when AI is integral to all aspects of design?
Not when AI is a tool you use. Not when AI is a feature you add. But when AI is integral — woven into the very fabric of how design happens, from the first glimmer of an insight to the last pixel of delivery.
This isn’t a question about workflow efficiency. This is a question about identity. About agency. About what it means to be a designer — and what it means to be an organisation — when the thing that designs everything is itself being redesigned by machines.