{"id":13754,"date":"2026-06-22T04:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=13754"},"modified":"2026-06-22T04:46:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:46:00","slug":"when-non-designers-stop-designing-and-start-using-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=13754","title":{"rendered":"When Non-Designers Stop Designing (and Start Using AI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2019, I wrote a piece in praise of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/in-praise-of-the-un-designed-world\/\">un-designed world,<\/a>\u201d an earnest appreciation of the unnoticed creative choices made by non-designing humans on a daily basis: think food cart menus, out-of-order signs, and bulletin board postings at your local coffee shop. Non-designers can make some pretty ingenious design choices when unencumbered by chasing trends or striving for perfect craft, something that I still believe to this day. It was cathartic to me to put this into words during the peak \u201cblanding\u201d era, and the piece sparked many great conversations with other creatives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the past year, I have noticed an overwhelming trend taking hold of small to medium-sized businesses: the raw human ingenuity of non-designers making design choices has been traded for the dull veneer of AI slop.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p><button id=\"expand-paywall-button\" class=\"expand-paywall-button\">Subscribe to Read More<\/button><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/when-non-designers-stop-designing-and-start-using-ai\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019, I wrote a piece in praise of the \u201cun-designed world,\u201d an earnest appreciation of the unnoticed creative choices made by non-designing humans on a daily basis: think food cart menus, out-of-order signs, and bulletin board postings at your local coffee shop. Non-designers can make some pretty ingenious design choices when unencumbered by chasing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}