I Surveyed 1,478 Designers About AI. Three Groups Emerged

Every year since 2017, UX Tools has surveyed the design industry. This is the first quarterly edition — and the data shows design has fractured into three distinct groups, each with a different relationship to AI, different satisfaction scores, and a different read on where the field is going.

This video covers the toolkit shift that explains the split, the 43% vibe coding vs. 37% who've never tried it, why 59% of designers are building tools for themselves, what's actually blocking adoption, and the satisfaction gap that I genuinely did not expect to find in the data.

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CHAPTERS:
0:00 — The toolkit shift: 5 of 10 top tools are now AI-first
3:19 — The split: 43%, 37%, and the 18.5% that decides
7:18 — Designers are building tools for themselves
9:23 — The top three blockers to adoption
9:36 — The satisfaction gap
11:32 — What this means and what comes next

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