“I'm saving so much time. I'm doing so much more projects, but I'm feeling still like not being enough, even though I'm more productive than ever. It feels to me like I try to out-compete the machine. And that's not a good place to be at.”
Honest UX Talks · User Experience · November 2026
Context
Schöndörfer had just described doing an audit without AI and being asked afterwards which AI tools he used. He says the speed gains from AI come with a constant feeling of falling behind.
Transcript
I don't know what the question was. I got taken away.
…good first draft and tweak it a little bit on top of it. But I think the draft is not the right thing to do anymore. And it's for everything, not only typography, but just generally speaking, right? It's a whole paradigm change with the content, with the UI, with the imaginary and stuff like that.
Yeah, basically everything is a draft right now or good enough now. Or better than it's complicated. And I also don't know where we will end up with this because in a way, maybe it's also just me. I turned 40 this year, so I'm just feeling old now. And I don't know. And I gave a talk about the optimizations for the city of Vienna, the typography optimizations, and somebody came up to me and asked me, what AI tools did you use during your project? And I was like, I felt in a way bad at the moment because I felt like, oh my God, I'm so old. And I didn't use AI tools to do this. I used AI tools to summarize the findings of my audit and my recommendations. That's what I used it for. I didn't use it to give me suggestions how to change it. I went just through these screens I audited and then I made my comments and remarks and recommendations. And I just did it by looking at it and thinking about it. And I didn't say, yeah, I look at this and this is the markdown file that you have to. That's the problem that I feel like.…
Yeah, absolutely. And it touches a little bit on the thing we discussed just before we started the recording. By the way, before I go into this, when you were saying you were not using AI for your presentation, I just, you know, we, in my job, when we started doing everything with AI, now we don't…
Yeah, it's also about just delivering, delivering. It's just build, deliver, build, deliver, build, deliver. It's not like think about stuff. And the thinking is in the building. And I don't fully agree with that. And I understand why there was a talk by someone from Anthropic who did cloud design.…
Yeah, makes sense. The human part in it. Because it takes a human to notice, to be able to process this, to understand it, and to be able to communicate it and even convince somebody that it's important. And again, that's only human that can do this. AI cannot convince me that typography is…
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