Elementor Ai: Will Web Designers Lose their Job?

Since the different AI tools have become popular a big question has risen to the surface: will we lose our jobs when these tools can build full websites? That's the question I want to explore in this video. We probably need to adapt...

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[katiewilliams]

Rino, I’m so grateful for every video you post. It is so apparent that you have done your research and look at all sides of each development, really diving in and not taking another’s word for it, while being aware of the threats/ weaknesses out there. Truly a business mind. You put in the the time, you test, you develop, you’re special. I love your consistency, approach and instruction. Truthful, honest, ethical, REAL. Thank you for being you. One of a kind and VERY intelligent. ❤

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[ValleyDigitalMarketing]

Came across your channel from reading a post on the Reddit Web Design forum and I am glad I did, your wisdom is highly appreciated. Best wishes to you Rino, thank you for all the content you provide.

[kentswan]

I'm a gray-beard multi-discipline design engineer (Electronics, General and Automated Processes Mechanics, CAD, Application Programming, Embedded Programming, etc).

I've been doing a lot of interactive testing using ChatGPT mostly associated with how to do certain things associated with the design work I'm involved with. What I've found so far is that knowing how to precisely ask your questions will largely determine the quality and correctness of the answer. ChatGPT has three things that allow it to more or less pass the Turing Test (eg are you talking to a human or a computer) The first of these is that the AI has the ability to parse and relate your questions using very natural language even if you make mistakes in spelling and grammar. The second is that every time you start a new chat or change subject matter within a chat the AI builds up a conversation context about what you're discussing (and it actually is a discussion because when there are various correct answers, some better than others you can query why it chose a particular answer path) and last (and I asked it about itself) it's been trained by reading a massive text base on just about everything it could be fed. One thing I found by asking is that, currently, while it cannot look up and respond with tabular historical data it can tell you where to find that data. At its current development level, I find it that it's a pretty good but not perfect technical resource which I use mostly as a cross between a library research assistant and a spot knowledge private tutor for things that I'm either working on or are curious about.

Going back to my original statement. The value to the user will largely depend on the user's baseline specific and general knowledge. I have found that ChatGPT's ability to quickly build up a useful context depends, not on whether you already know something but whether you know at least the basic terminology and general ideas of the subject area you're exploring. This plays into your discussion about how the role and value of the designers change as they learn how to use and deploy rough ideas as usable end products.

As a last note. You can use ChatGPT almost like a slimmed-down but more highly crosslinked Wikipedia to look into things you know little about and actually learn the terminology of new disciplines. Finally, ChatGPT performs sufficiently well that it feels a little like the ship's computer on StarTrek or Siri on steroids the difference being that the precision of how you ask questions to get useful results is much better in text than normal human speech is.

Net conclusion. Simple Questions get simple answers (mostly) but complex compound questions are more useful in getting answers which translate intent into the kind of things required to build useful end products and finally GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out)

[stephankirchhoff]

As stupid as it sounds: Being a webdesigner never really was about designing the website.

it’s about providing a quality service to a customer, a businessperson, that has it’s time & skills invested into whatever their business is about. We as webdesigners consult, advise, build and most importantly maintain a businesses web presence.

We’re paid for being the expert & the person to call, all things web presence.

This might have been your most fundamental video talking about our industry, great work Rino!

[albertobengoa]

Web dev + Bussiness knowledge = Web Consultant.

We must expand our area of work to guide the customer through more steps of their digitization.

Good video.

[comleonmoto]

Reno, you’re so clever.🤩I’m a professional translator and we’re having that kind of discussion/concern for some time, as machine translation is around for a while.
Our findings are the same: “technicians” or lower skilled people will disappear (professionally speaking, of course), but experts, visionaries, creative people and persons highly skilled in terms of human relations will survive and even thrive. Because, AI is still a machine thing, and a machine should always be driven, checked, corrected (at least for now!). And because at the end of the day, we work for humans… not for machines.

[battleconflict.]

Of course they will not lose their job, there will still be millions of people that just don't have the feeling, skills and a mindset of a designer. So there will always be a market for web designers even with AI, I tried this with my traineeships, none of them could make proper webdesign while using the AI tool.

[arvindrana]

All these years engineers were working to replace themselves 😂

[healingzen]

That was so very valuable in many immeasurable ways. Thank you so very much Rino. I've seen a few of your vids so far and each and every single one has much value. Thanks

[WordPressWisdom]

Great content. And good advice. Alot of people need to adapt to the emerging technologies.

[janellem]

Great perspective, I share this as well. Another important point to think about is that AI will not have knowledge of SEO like we do... which is also specific to each industry. Google can tell if something was written by a bot and it doesn't like it. Organic content ranks higher.

[levindeheer]

I have been waiting for this video a long time, cause all the other YouTubers are always so hyped and not realistic. I really like how you pointed out that we need to focus more on soft skills in stead of hard skills. I do agree with that, but I think there are more options for the future, but a fact is that we have to change as webdevelopers.
One option is indeed as you said to be better in the soft skills, another would maybe be that we have to provide more services to clients. Lets say you can only make websites, you probably have to learn now SEO or social media management to provide more then only a website. Maybe because websites will become cheaper, we have to focus on other things, for example making a webshop, or making also an app, or making a complex website like a tutorial website.
I think we have to adapt, but there are plenty of options if you want to change.

[bySterling]

The new text request to custom code looks amazing!!

[jacobwwarner]

Hey Rino, can you do a video speaking on developing on wordpress/elementor vs. Webflow? A lot of people push webflow but I'm leaning toward elementor because the wordpress ecosystem is a little more disconnected from a single brand or company. It would be nice to see you speak on contrasting the two and why you would want to specialize on WordPress & Elementor.

[heavylogc]

I'm not switching to containers btw. Elementor devs said that sections won't be deprecated. So I chose to stay on sections, because it's easier to use for my clients.

[szabojanos]

Hello Rino, Can you tell us what kind of microphone boom arm, and camera (maybe still Sony ZV-1?) do yo use? Thank you in advance! 🙏

[jeffxcc]

I totally agree. I've done tech support for small businesses and a lot still struggle with what a url field is... to simply type in a website! I think we will be safe for a while!🤣

[christiangrothe]

I think that with tools like this we will have much more websites going live and all of them will somehow look the same. Which works for general purpose websites. But I doubt that AI will be able to create innovative designs and instead will just repeat what it already knows. So beeing able to create unique websites that AI can not "think" about will be a goof skill. Its also something that happend in the music industry somehow. Nowadays it is much easier to create a song or a track and the outcome of this is that there is so much music that sounds boring and very similar cause the tools are dictating so much.

[alexiszurfluh]

Rino, I share your opinion 100%. Nevertheless many website jobs are some smaller pages for people starting startups, such as photographers, hairdressers, pizzeria.. etc. These are webpages many of us webdesigners won’t be able to do anymore, because such clients with small budgets will do it by themself and don’t need this focus on service/humanity.

Something where I thing A.I. is still pretty far away and you didn’t really mention, is the complexity of some pages. You need to channel many informations coming from different people and come up with smart solutions. You can’t solve this with prompts. Having said that, I thing all web designers need to find bigger clients with challenging tasks ;) Webpages for restaurants and similar won’t bring much revenue on the long run.