The Super IC

Laila directed me towards this piece on Designers! Designers! Designers! - a nice writeup about the role of Designers in a world where AI is demystifying app development. As the Preston Atterbery post (above) says:

"Once everyone can make an app, we will remember that the hard part about apps isn't making the app"

I'll let you go read the article (it's good) but the part that struck me the most was the bit about a Super IC, an Individual Contributor that does design, product strategy, engineering and, who knows, maybe a dash of marketing! We are living in interesting times to say the least. My gut says that burdening a designer with that many roles isn't going to result in a good end product. But the other hand says, the tooling may be nearing a point where making a proof-of-concept really isn't much effort, so why not dive in?

I'm not holding a strong opinion here because I think we're in a fluctuating time. Companies need to be responsible about the requirements they put on employees and folks need to be open to stretching outside their norms a little bit.