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Graphic Designers
Design or create graphics to meet specific commercial or promotional needs, such as packaging, displays, or logos. May use a variety of mediums to achieve artistic or decorative effects.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Key information into computer equipment to create layouts for client or supervisor.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Review final layouts and suggest improvements, as needed.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Determine size and arrangement of illustrative material and copy, and select style and size of type.People already use AI for this at work
- 04Develop graphics and layouts for product illustrations, company logos, and Web sites.People already use AI for this at work
- 05Create designs, concepts, and sample layouts, based on knowledge of layout principles and esthetic design concepts.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Use computer software to generate new images.People already use AI for this at work
- 07Prepare digital files for printing.No rating yet
- 08Confer with clients to discuss and determine layout design.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Research the target audience of projects.No rating yet
- 10Draw and print charts, graphs, illustrations, and other artwork, using computer.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss37%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
50%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 75% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.
AI tools for your work
Official connectors that let an AI assistant work inside the apps designers use. Each is made by the app’s own maker.