“AI in design — has it actually made things better for you, or just made the market more crowded? Curious what you’re all seeing 
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In my experience, AI has helped me tremendously. What used to take hours now takes seconds. I use it to research trends, discover what customers are shopping for, and refine keywords, meta tags, titles, and descriptions and mockups. It’s helped me stay current and push creative boundaries doing things that weren’t possible before. The artwork it can produce is amazing. For me, AI hasn’t wrecked the game; it’s opened new doors
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i think its amazing what you can do now ith AI, being dyslexic myself, AI truely is a gift. a website built and scheduling done until october , all in a day.
i can see it all being finished in 5/10 years , with the next generation knowing AI inside out.
as they say never put all your eggs in one basket.
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I can’t decide between better and worse when it comes to this question. Yes, it has become crowded. Yes, there is a lot of garbage, and there are still some really great new things as well.
But the worst part is that everything is becoming so generic, so similar, so much the same.
So, whoever can stay true to their own style should keep working with whatever tools work for them.
Some tools help me translate. Others help me find errors in code. But my image ideas are still mine. And I do make a point of following my gut.
Even though my taste is very personal, I can say one thing with certainty: when I don’t like something, it sells. What I love usually doesn’t.
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I agree with a lot of what you are saying
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Yes, i agree. I’ve noticed what I like is different from what my customers like.
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Bwahahaha! I have a LOT of designs that I nearly deleted because I thought they were sooooo ugly - some of them have become my best sellers, even received editor’s picks! I don’t know what that says about me or about Zazzle or about customer taste, but it is very interesting!
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Omg same 
I’ve literally cringed at designs I was about to delete, and then 2 weeks later they’re my top sellers.
I think it proves customers don’t buy what we think is pretty… they buy what speaks to them.
Our “ugly” is their “perfect”. Zazzle never fails to humble me lol. What was your best seller that you almost deleted?
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This is a image i literally threw together with bits and pieces and sold the same day on another platform, and several here. I thought is was so bland.
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I nearly deleted this one right after I made it. I thought the margins were too small, the angle on the pine branches looked wonky, and it just looked generally boring to me. I’ve sold nearly 16K of them though (meaning 16,000 cards, not orders - but still…) I guess the universe disagrees with me! It’s hand painted though - not AI generated, so I guess it has that going for it!
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So, before I delete something, I should wait?
I don’t! Have to reorder so much things. Deleted almost 4000 listings just in the last 7 days.
Starting “for germans” brought me in a difficult position. Some things are just gone there where they have to be. Not because they are ugly, sometimes the concept for a design idea is to strange, to different.
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We like to have things predictable, but, what people see and what they like and what they buy, seems not to be that… predictable at all. Congratulations to a good selling card!
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Before you delete anything, it’s worth remembering that your opinion of a design isn’t always the customer’s opinion. I’ve had plenty of products I thought were “meh,” or too odd, or too outdated and someone out there ended up loving them. Just recently I found items I made back in the summer of 2025. They had zero views for an entire year. I updated the metadata, added a fresh mockup, and overnight they started getting views again and were back in the marketplace. That’s why I personally never delete anything. Trends shift, customers change, and sometimes a design just needs the right title, tags, or mockup to finally be seen.
Example >I created a photo tote bag in 2009. It didn’t sell for nine years. Barely any views. Then out of nowhere it sold and since then I’ve had several repeat sales for that same bag. If I had deleted it, those sales never would’ve happened. So yes, you can delete things if you truly want to but just because a design feels strange, different, or not your favorite doesn’t mean that customers think the same as you do.
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