GenZedong

Oh man these are difficult questions. You know, as much as we got flooded with shitty AI images and clearly GPT comments and replies on the web since 2023, I don't think I've seen a website entirely coded with AI yet. Or maybe if I have, it passed for a normal website and I didn't notice. Honestly Wordpress already has so much of the market that I think switching web design to AI may not change much, functionally. AI generations are all kinda samey due to the training data, but so are wordpress websites (unless you really go full custom but then the trend now is doing headless).

I do use AI for JS though, which I've never learned and don't feel like learning, and it's got me out of a bind once in a while. It's very simple stuff though, I wouldn't use it for a whole website. In terms of design I do use AI to help guide and rephrase my thoughts when I go through the process, it doesn't do everything but it helps. But I wouldn't use it to code a whole website or even make a mockup, I'm not sure it even could generate a coherent mockup at this stage.

These days I mostly design for ProleWiki and acquaintances, so I'm lucky in that I can use whatever I prefer to use since I'm the only one using the design documents. I usually do my mockups on paper with super crude boxes lol, but because I'm the one implementing them, I don't need them to look great. To me design is not only having ideas but also bringing it into the world; union of theory and practice and solving of the problem-solution dialectic. So I'm designing at every step of the way and trying not to overthink it and reinvent the wheel each time.

Btw wix is "Israeli", if you can avoid using it at all.

I think what I enjoy most is unveiling the concept for the first time and gathering feedback. Seeing it all come together once you've correctly identified the problem too, and confirming that your shots in the dark were right.