Taste Is the Only Thing AI Can't Generate (Yet) with Matt Scribner of Atlassian

Every brand team is being handed AI tools and told to do more with less. What they're not being told is that without taste and a real idea, the output is just sophisticated noise at scale.

Matt Scribner is a growth designer at Atlassian — a company whose brand touches tens of thousands of visitors a week — and he's been inside the AI-enabled design workflow longer than most. His take isn't a sales pitch for the tools or a doomsday headline about job loss. It's something more useful: an honest account of where AI actually helps, where it quietly fails, and why the designers who thrive won't be the ones who prompt the best.

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