With AI, anyone on a team can generate mockups in minutes. That was never the hard part. The difficult work is, and always has been, maintaining coherency and intention across a product so it works for people, not the other way around. And perhaps unintuitively, everyone making mockups can help. I was recently in a meeting discussing improvements to a specific part of a product. The backend engineer came in with a mockup. The product manager came in with a mockup. And the front end developer already had a working build. Three different disciplines all showing up with their version of what the UI could be, all enabled by AI tools. Given this reality, designers should worry about AI taking their jobs right? Well if the job is making mockups, then yes. Here's what happened in that meeting. Seeing each person's concepts led me to ask the more important design questions. How do these features interact? What are the relationships between them?…