If not, just do it already. As a product designer, it is your duty… nay, its your right of passage into this industry. The only other option is a blood offering on page 217 of Don Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things!

And don’t forget to make the post sound like you are the first person to teach something novel and valuable to the world of design. After all, if not you, then who? (other than 9,99,999 others, of course!).

While I don’t expect originality or even baseline curiosity from LinkedIn to begin with, but the sheer lack of creativity coming from a creative job title deserves at least a passing mention. No analysis. No opinion. No debate. Just copied content from a website, lightly repackaged into beige templates, applauded by strangers doing the exact same thing. Posting, purely for the sake of posting.

What makes this whole thing truly impressive is that this level of mediocrity now exists despite AI. You literally just need to give it one original thought, and it will hand you a passable, unique post. And yet – nada!

At this point, we’re not talking about people struggling to think; we’re talking about people outsourcing the little thinking they used to do and landing on the overused vanilla conclusions.

AI is an output machine. But you can’t put in potatoes and expect gold to come out the other end (had to use this example since I’m from India—IYKYK). AI is only as good as its user, and considering the collective curiosity, originality, and analytical depth of the current LinkedIn audience, it’s safe to say AI still has a long way to go. So maybe the real problem isn’t AI replacing designers… it’s designers replacing thinking.

Anyway, see you tomorrow when this exact post appears again, but in a slightly different beige!