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AI is creating logos, posters, even entire websites in seconds. Will AI replace designers? Or will human creativity always win?

In this powerful conversation, I sit down with Kaladhar Bapu — founder of UX India and UMO Design Foundation, and one of the leading voices in design across the world.

We go deep into the future of design in the age of AI, the dark patterns apps use to manipulate users, and the skills every student, designer, and entrepreneur must master to stay relevant in the next 10 years.

🎯 What We Covered in This Episode:
Will AI replace designers?
Why AI won’t kill design, but lazy designers will be replaced.
The dark side of commerce apps and other retail brands round the use of dark patterns to trick users.
“Boycott Bad Design” — why bad design is not just ugly, but dangerous.
Design as a career: Can creativity be learned, and how do you start?
The future of UI/UX, product design, and design entrepreneurship.
The mission to educate 1 Million women in design by 2030.
How Kaladhar’s journey went from Microsoft to leading a global design movement.

🎯 Who Should Watch This:
Design students & professionals worried about AI and the future of jobs.
Entrepreneurs & founders who want to understand how design impacts billion-dollar companies.
Tech & product managers curious about AI, UX, and the hidden psychology of apps.
Anyone who uses Swiggy, Zomato, Zepto, or Uber — and has felt “cheated” by hidden charges.
Students & career switchers who want to know if creativity and design can be learned.

🎯 Why You Should Watch:
To learn how AI is transforming design and jobs — and how to stay ahead.
To uncover the truth about dark patterns and how apps manipulate users.
To understand the future skills you must build to survive the next 10 years.
To hear real stories from one of India’s top design leaders.
To get inspired by a global mission: design literacy for 1 million women.

Timestamps:
00:00 - Teaser
01:49 - Intro
02:15 - Will AI replace designers?
05:50 - Should a student look at design as a career
08:50 - How much of design is art or psychology
10:25 - What are “dark patterns” in design? Are they legal?
13:02 - Should designers push back against manipulative design?
15:30 - Example of a commerce platform & Apple’s dark pattern
22:38 - Caricature as design to move people in politics
29:50 - Boycott Bad Design movement against Bajaj Pulsar
33:05 - Story behind UX India
36:45 - Can designers be entrepreneurs, will VCs fund them?
40:00 - Mission of educating 1 million women
44:15 - Salary range of designers (example of Jony Ive)
49:00 - From a Tier-3 college — can design pay?
54:30 - Story of Kaladhar Bapu (Govt. school to IIT to going global)
1:06:50 - Current generation mindset & how to shift it
1:08:55 - Best advice and worst advice
1:09:50 - Indian govt. websites vs USA govt. websites
1:14:10 - One design in India to boycott
1:16:20 - What would you change or redesign in your life
1:18:20 - Skills needed for designers
1:21:00 - Thank you note and closing

Kaladhar Bapu (Guest):
Linkedin:   / kbapu  
Instagram:   / kbapu  

Pradeep Bharade (Host):
Linkedin:   / pradeepbharade  
Instagram:   / powerupwithpradeep  


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