#162 The Case of the Vanished Judgment

Future of UX | Your Design, Tech and User Experience Podcast | AI Design · Jul 16, 2026 · 22m

A designer with 20+ years of experience sits in front of twelve competent, AI-generated screens... and can't evaluate a single one. Not because they're bad. Because something is missing. And the same thing happened to me.

In this episode, I investigate this case like a detective story: What was taken from us? Who took it? The answer turned out to be the most hopeful thing I've learned about design in years, disguised as a crisis. Because the comps were never the design. The comps are the artifact. The design is the model in your head, and no tool can generate it.

In this episode:

The mystery…