We explore how the frictionless ease of modern tools is trapping us in bad ideas by removing the necessary pause to question whether we’re solving the right problem. Meg Kurdziolek warns that this speed creates design fixation and confirmation bias, while Sarah Gibbons argues we must distinguish between four distinct AI design jobs to avoid diluting our expertise. We examine how this loss of resistance manifests in community discussions, from developers hiding behind component libraries to design leaders automating away the deep understanding of their own systems.
