Cognitive Sovereignty Self-Audit for Interior Designers
This audit measures whether you are making design decisions or curating AI outputs. It reveals where your own spatial reasoning and material expertise are being replaced by image generation and visualisation tools.
Before opening any AI tool, write down three reasons why your design direction serves the brief. If you cannot write them, your concept is not yet formed.
When a client questions whether AI made the design, have a specific material or spatial detail ready that you can explain in depth. This is the proof of your thinking.
Use Planner 5D and Adobe Firefly to test whether a layout actually works, not to generate options you have not evaluated. Generate only what you need to verify.
Take photographs of built spaces you admire instead of collecting AI mood boards. Real spaces teach you how materials behave and how light changes through the day.
After you present a design to a client, ask them what they think will be hard to live with about the space. Listen carefully. AI renderings hide the answers to this question.