Okay, now to expand on my specific arguments around the two sub-questions of the questioner.
First of all, graphic design doesn't have a long history of development, and universities have a short history of operation. Although design or more narrowly graphic design has been around for a long time, the time it has really been established as a discipline is very short, and the reason why it has seen quite a rapid development in a short period of time is because of the surge in market demand and the huge potential for development. Once the graphic design are relying on hand-drawn to complete, and then the development of photographic technology, graphic design and joined the photography, and then later, the development of software technology, more design work from hand-drawn plus photography plus software drawing integrated. So there is now what we call graphic design. It's hard to say what other technological innovations will come in the future, but Ali now has the technology to make 40 million posters a day. It's hard to say what other huge changes will come in the future. So does having AI mean that designers are out of a job? Not necessarily.
What AI can learn is always technical, not emotional. It's important to keep that in mind. A designer's highest ability is to convey emotion with a diagram. A compelling design is one that is infused with the designer's (team's) emotions and connects with the audience's emotions. Such a design can only be done by people, only the best designers (team) can do.
So my conclusion is: no matter how the design industry develops in the future, designers are important. Employment prospects are also bright.
Secondly, on the subject of demand. An example I often use is the relationship between designers and doctors, both of which are positions that become more in demand the older they get. Medicine is an empirical science, and design also places a lot of emphasis on the accumulation of experience. Therefore, designers are definitely not the youthful eaters that many people say they are. And doctors, every year from the medical school graduates a lot of students, designers are the same, designers can not only be born from the class, but also through self-education, every year a lot of designers to the market, but many designers are unknowingly eliminated by the market, why? Because, they do not advance, do not learn, eat the old. Therefore, the old also has no real experience, which is naturally to be eliminated, doctors have to study every year to participate in a variety of exams, designers, although you do not need to take the test every year, but the market does not need you to go back to study when it is a little too late. Demand has always been increasing, just quit the design industry is also a lot of people, therefore, the design industry will always be short of people. There is no such thing as saturation.
Now a word about future prospects. Since it is a large number of graduates flock to the market every year, there are also many self-study to join the ranks, the market competition since needless to say are very fierce. But you have to understand that the history of the development of graphic design for all industries, every industry needs graphic design. Now a do liquor companies will raise a lot of song designers specializing in packaging design, a do medical small hospitals will have special designers to design their own web pages and indoor publicity and marketing campaigns, third-party companies on the demand for designers are basically there, and some specializing in e-commerce, the requirements of designers that is more. For example, often have to change the page, each time a different holiday to change a different style and so on, these things are inseparable from the designer. Although a lot of things in the future are not necessarily through the paper media to achieve the effect of publicity, but the online design will only become more and more. Therefore, the future of the designer's way out is very broad, you can go to a third party, you can enter a specialized design company or advertising agency, you can also start their own business to open a studio or create their own business, but also can be directed to me also design, UI design and so on. Designers will never be starved to death, there will always be food.