Below are a list of AI tools that we believe are helpful for UX designers. This list was sourced from our friends who work in the field.
Featured tools:
- What is it: An AI design assistant within Figma
- How to leverage it:
- Save time by generating images/shapes/etc. from simple text prompts.
- I like to use this just to get a simple design inspiration and then iterate off of it. Especially good when starting from a blank template.
- Notes:
- The renderings can take a while to complete.
- This is a Figma-specific plugin, so you must be using that tool to leverage this.
- What is it: Midjourney is an AI art-generation tool. It is a small independent research lab that is self-funded.
- How to leverage it:
- Similar to Ando, I like to use Midjourney to come up with an initial design concept.
- Once I have something I like, I either edit the asset in Figma or build it from scratch with the necessary changes.
- Notes:
- A lot of people like Dall-E or Stable Diffusion, but I have found that my results from Midjourney are MUCH better.
- Midjourney requires you to have a Discord account, and you need to upgrade to paid tier to go past their monthly max art generations.
