Catt Small

Honestly, yeah, like these diagrams that I've created, for me, a lot of the times when I create those kinds of diagrams, it's initially just for me to process my own understanding of what people have written in document form.

So PMs will often, you know, they like docs.

And I love docs as well.

I love writing.

But sometimes when you write, you have the definition of everything in your head and you read the doc the way that you wrote it.

but then other people can interpret it completely differently.

And I find that, you know, it is helpful to have some kind of a visualization to make sure that you actually understand.

But I think a lot of people assume that the visualization needs to be actual interface design when in fact, sometimes traditional, this is the graphic designer and me talking, but like traditional communication design can often be just as good.

So if you have a diagram, you're,

outlining the different concepts, then yes, you can show the relationship of objects without having to actually start talking about how you treat the user flow, which is a whole different conversation in my mind.

Yeah, I think my hypothesis, because we're all still learning, is that AI, for me, feels like it is another tool in the toolkit that we can use to convey information.

So it can be really helpful for doing research, for example.

I definitely encourage people to use it as a kind of like light research assistant that you then review afterward.

It's a really...

powerful intern, essentially.

I think that my preference and my experience has been that you should always be the creative director, as people have said, because I don't think it should be doing the thinking for you.

And this is definitely me parroting a bit of like,

you know, talking points and stuff, but essentially like, as far as I know, my understanding of how it works is it's kind of like summarizing a bunch of things.

So if you are using a tool that summarizes and kind of like creates like an average, then you, if you're trying to use that to create new ideas, I mean, like maybe it'll create, it'll do weird things,

that are maybe sometimes fun and interesting, but I still feel strongly that designers are there because we are part of this industry because we think critically and we take what we learn from people and we try new things, we experiment.