It’s fascinating (and somewhat terrifying) to see how things get propagated by copying other things endlessly and how those things never get questioned.
For example, Adobe XD was placed in maintenance mode, and removed from sale in 2023 and InVision was shut down permanently in December 2024. We are almost in 2026, AI is running rampant, and many (if not most) designers are on Figma and forgot the other ones ever existed.
Technical and economic revolutions are happening before our eyes, yet XD and InVision still appear as tool requirements in many job descriptions for designer positions. Goes to say that maybe too much of recruiting for design roles is done by copying requirements and buzzwords from one job description to another rather than by actually understanding the problem that needs to be solved, the type of person that can do it, and actually taking the time to write things down in a way that reflects it properly.
All in all this is a harmless example, but it makes one wonder how much of the world is run by individuals ‘cargo culting’ their way through life and business, or through our planetary living systems which are actually critical to existence itself.
Artwork: The adoration of the golden calf • Nicolas Poussin