1). The AI-generated design that I created was an app that allows for toy collectors and enthusiasts to display, track, and trade their figures and collectibles. 

2). I think the generative AI did a pretty decent job mocking-up a design that was both visually appealing and intuitive. It was pretty interesting to see how AI interpreted the prompts I fed it and see how it reevaluated itself upon feedback. I think generative AI is great for getting a visual mock-up easy and fast and it was able to make designs that I thought were cohesive and interesting. Overall, it did a pretty decent job as both a designer and an assistant. 

3). Being able to describe to the AI what I wanted the app to do and look like was super useful in speeding up the process of creating rough mock-ups. It takes a long time planning and coming up with initial ideas for how something might look, but having AI in the workflow expedited this process ten fold and made starting the project super easy. Whenever I start any project, I feel like I always get frozen and spend hours sitting at a blank canvas, planning what to do and what it might look like. Having AI generate my ideas into tangible products really helps with the visualization and brainstorming process.

4). One thing that slowed me down was constantly having to feed the AI specific prompts so it could generate something even remotely close to the initial vision I had. Lots of time was spent fine tuning specific concepts and visual elements until I had something I was satisfied with. 

5). One way I might approach my design process differently in the future is implementing AI into the brainstorming and planning phase of any project. If I want to see something tangible, I might implement artificial intelligence to streamline the process of creating mock-ups.

6). The ethical implications of outsourcing UX design to AI can be bad, but if done correctly and responsibly, I believe it can help expedite the process of not just UX, but design as a whole. Purely relying on AI to create and design something for you will give you shallow and unoriginal concepts, but if you use AI as an assistant to help you create something, then I don’t personally see anything wrong with it. The AI fails to create something original, fails to account for accessibility, and more often than not, has many errors in the final product. Depending on AI and using it as a crutch is a concern any designer working with AI should have. AI should be your assistant, not the other way around.