AI Exposes Design Craft Crisis Across Industry

At Figma’s Config 2024, CEO Dylan Field demonstrated AI-generated UIs before 10,000 designers, prompting applause then controversy after outputs resembled Apple’s Weather app and the feature was disabled. In May 2025 tests, Figma Sites demo pages showed up to 210 WCAG violations; other AI design and coding tools produced broken or unusable outputs, and Builder.ai later filed bankruptcy despite $445 million raised. The article argues AI exposed a decade-long technical-literacy gap in design.