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AI is pushing UX into a βcustodial eraβ where teams can generate and ship features faster than they can properly evaluate them, creating UX debt. As a result, UX practitioners increasingly act as custodians who clean up, simplify, validate, and triage AI-generated experiences, helping organizations distinguish what can be built from what should be built, while adapting research and evaluation processes to keep pace with rapid production and embedding UX principles directly into AI generation workflows to prevent future problems.
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Design's struggle for legitimacy stems from "legibility," where organizations only value predictable, determinate work they can measure and plan around. Unlike engineering or marketing, UX/Design remained a synthetic, indeterminate practice, making its core workβresearch, iteration, and conceptual modelingβinvisible to organizations. Design leadership's real challenge, then, is not translating design to the business, but expanding what businesses recognize as legitimate, valuable work.
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