She didn't generate a new design. Instead, she took the AI's output from the night before and started breaking it. She moved the watercolor blob off-center. She replaced the AI-suggested font with an obscure typeface she'd been saving for years. She layered a grainy texture over the pastel background.
The search results were a graveyard of broken promises. Canva was fine, but everyone used Canva. Crello was similar. Then, near the bottom of the first page, a name she hadn't seen since college: wondershare pixstudio
During the onboarding call, a product manager asked her, "What's the one thing you wish PixStudio could do?" She didn't generate a new design