All that's left is creativity

When I think back to the earliest times in my life of exploring creativity, I remember trying air brushing and working with stencils. There was also a time when I was trying to recreate characters from cartoons or movies. Jumping from one medium to another, I found even typography fascinating and various forms of it such as calligraphy. One of my other brief and early explorations in creative design was with grafitti art and in attempting to recreate those styles.

While learning more traditional trades such as drafting and technical illustration, I found that all of these mediums were deep dives into new areas of art and design. When I found print and the web, it was fascinating and yet another medium to explore with it’s own set of restrictions. Just like in the early days of the browser technology, which had minimal support in comparison of those today.

As technology and mediums evolve, so does the craft but one constant that remains is creativity. I believe that’s all that’s left in this new emerging market. Busy work is being replaced rapidly by AI and that gives us more time to focus on the areas we thrive in. For design, I believe it’s the time to focus on these new mediums in generative art and UI.

These are significant times, it reminds me of the impact of the web and how it changed business with the advent of online commerce. It might be even be bigger than that, such that we can redefine the ways in which we work and create value in the marketplace of tomorrow. I believe all that’s left is this distinct level of creativity because at the end of the day, most tasks will be abstracted away for us.

Honestly, I won’t miss the long days of coding user interfaces or debugging complex UIs when AI agents will take up those tasks. Or the frustrations of working through incompatible packages that seemed to work fine locally but for some reason fail in deployment or server environments. These common development efforts or difficulties will soon be removed and all that’s left will be creativity.