For nearly 20 years, interface design has been dominated by tools built on the same paradigm: same canvas, same layers panel, same constraints. When everyone uses the same tool, it is little wonder that interfaces start to look and feel the same.

Jonny argues that AI risks making this worse, pulling design further towards the mean through auto-generated sameness. But the same technology can be turned against that tendency: not to design for us, but to help create new tools that encourage a genuine diversity of expression.

This optimistic talk brings examples of truly novel ideas in tool-building from both solo designers and scaled design teams, drawing parallels with music and art to make the case for why right now can and must be the end of the monolithic design app. Jonny challenges the room to imagine a world where designers build not only their own visual styles, but the very means by which they create them.