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Still early innings
Things have changed a lot, and it can feel like the shift is well along. It is still early innings. Nobody has a perfect answer for how the design process should work, and whatever works today will probably change again.
Staying adaptable
Adaptability matters because what didn't work yesterday might work today. One way in is to take an idea and throw it into Codex, Claude, or another agent to think it through and prototype it. It doesn't have to be the exact right way to work.
Anyone can begin
The same goes for people early in a career, late in one, or who have never designed anything. Learning design once meant viewing the source of an HTML page to see how it was built. Today an idea can become a working version in a matter of minutes.
Why did viewing page source teach web design?
Web pages reach the browser as HTML, a plain-text format that anyone can read. Early browsers such as Mosaic, released in 1993, included a command to view a page's source. Beginners could open a page they admired and see exactly how its structure was written. Tim Berners-Lee's first web browser dates to 1990.
Why do new technologies stay unsettled for years?
Economist Carlota Perez described in her 2002 book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital how new technologies move through an installation phase and a later deployment phase. During installation, people experiment widely and standard practices have not yet formed. Only after that does a settled way of using the technology emerge. Her examples include the railways and the automobile.
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