The end of the designers......

Like I said in all my other post is that I think the computer will take over more and more. One interesting aspect to look at is the “self-service” part where you design the things you buy yourself. Today it is possible to go into different sites and design your own product and then you just press “buy” or something. Then in a couple of weeks it will be delivered to your home. Just look at the shirt industry. There are sites (for example...www.tailorstore.se/) where you go to where you just type in your measurements, what colour you want and you can even design the shirt yourself, then you just hit the “buy” button and the shirt will appear at your home in a couple of weeks.

Will this development be the end of designers?..... I really hope not, but I think that the amount of designers will decrease. There will not be space and jobs for all the designers that are employed today. We are heading into a phase where people do a lot of things by themselves which means that there will be jobs that will disappear. Will people have time to do everything by themselves in the future. I predict that the “self-service” part is increasing rapidly today, but some time in the future we will reach a peak and realize that there´s not time enough to do all the stuff by ourselves which will result in a downfall of the “self-service” part. This will result in less jobs in the near future but as time goes by will come back to where we are today…..

Here´s my own little prediction graph over how much we will do ourselves in the future......

That´s all for today!