Quick check
Guess first, no penalty. Microsoft Research studied 200,000 conversations with its AI assistant. On which kind of work were users least satisfied with AI's help?
The study, Working with AI (Microsoft Research, 2025), found "the common IWAs with the lowest positive feedback share include five visual design and five data analysis IWAs." An IWA is a work activity, like "design graphics".
So AI is not yet a designer. It's a fast production assistant: it makes many options, cuts out backgrounds, resizes, fills layouts with placeholder copy (sample text) and sorts research notes. Choosing, fixing and defending stay with you.
Sort it
Can AI draft it, or does it need your eye?
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Worked example
Step by step
Ten social variants from one sale banner, split between AI and you.
Step 1 of 4: AI generates
Step 1 of 4
AI generates
Ten variants in square and story sizes, from your master design.
AI made the options in a minute. The three steps after it are where your skill shows.
Fill the gaps
Fill the gaps in the split.
The split
AI can . I . I .
Try it
Your steps, about 2 minutes
- 1.Ask an AI image or design tool for 5 variants of something small you need this week, like a banner or a slide header. Pick one and write one line on why.2 min