Design Survival Handbook

Tools to help people working in design survive in an AI-driven creative industry.

Who needs to see it?

Fresh newcomers to the creative design field.

Practitioners who need to collaborate with AI in creative fields.

People who are worried about being replaced by AI in creativity.

What will you learn?

Principles of how to work with AI.

How to delegate and use AI in different roles.

How to define your role when compared to AI.

Produced by Yutong Wang from RCA DP (DF)

Vision: Maintain and develop the value of design.

1. Future scenarios of AI-driven industry.

2. Dilemmas faced by creative practitioners.

3. Interventions to preserve the value of designers.

Principles: You need to follow when using AI.

1. Think before using AI

2. Aligned your thoughts to AI

3. Divide results with AI

Methodology: Develop the usability of AI tools.

1. Understand how AI thinks and learns

2. Accurately translate perceptions to AI

3. Personalize teaching and delegate task to AI

Assessment: Criteria for assessing your output value.

1. Individual experience

2. Ability to work with unknown

3. Experience-based judgement

Survival: What is the future role of designer?

1. Creator (Leader)

2. Mediator (Specialist)

3. Operator (Worker)

Vision 1. Future scenarios of AI-driven industry.

The future of AI continues to outpace humans in many ways, leading to faster efficiencies and the creation of new types of jobs and processes. But AI is a double-edged sword. While humans enjoy the fruits of the revolution brought about by AI technology, they also face a constant threat to the unique value of humanity. The risk of becoming obsolete by AI technology or by those who use it.

Where do you want to be in the future job pyramid in the era of AI?

The long-standing human work pyramid structure is not necessarily collapsing, but more likely to be self-adjusting on the basis of the existing foundation. Even in the middle or top of the pyramid, will face the impact of artificial intelligence technology, they also need to re-adapt.

Vision 2. Dilemmas faced by creative practitioners.

In the AI-driven society of the future, human designers face a variety of dilemmas.

• Several aspects of creative work will be replaced by AI.

• Inability to collaborate well with AI will make them less competitive.

• Overuse of AI will cause designers to lose their core competencies, allowing AI to take control of humanity and creativity.

What attitudes designers use to adapt the changes brought by AI in the industry?

Not using AI to resist the changes and disruptions by AI in the industry.

Embrace AI as a tool and care about the development of AI applications

Can't adapt to the way AI works and get eliminated

Human beings and AI build strengths and co-create together