Artificial intelligence has gained momentum so fast it’s scary. And scary, and aesthetically pleasing, and beneficial in terms of saving design effort and reducing costs. It makes sense that you hear from everywhere: “Won’t AI take jobs away from designers?”. The question is debatable. But you have to admit, as long as we design for people, we will always need human designers.
Plus, AI technology offers some really exciting new opportunities to create better user experiences. In this study, let’s learn how to make artificial intelligence work for you – from automating repetitive tasks to creating impressive visuals.
DALL-E 2
A neural network from OpenAI that creates original images from a text description. To get slightly better results than usual, use Prompt Optimizer. The service helps you to write more precise prompts. It understands only English.
Midjourney
Website banners, blog articles, generating logos, characters, patterns, advertising creatives, employee images, product design – this is not a complete list of what Midjourney can do. To get the most practical benefit, use a special service for generating complex queries – Midjourney Prompt Tool.
Stable Diffusion
Allows you to generate an image based on text or input image as quickly as possible. It is considered one of the most “breakthrough” models in terms of speed and quality of generated images.
OpenArt
A platform for images, such a huge library of images created by artificial intelligence. You can find here millions of images using hints from DALL-E 2, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion; create images from text promts and edit already created images. Quite handy, because from good results you can just copy the prompt, then edit it to your liking and use it in the same Stable Diffusion, for example.
Playground AI
Among AI models, by which the image will be created, you can choose Playground. One of the easiest and most effective AI tools for creating graphics. You can generate images on the site, and share them in the Discord community.
Viesus
Improves clarity of photos and scales them, reconstructs faces, removes red-eye effect, makes local and global correction of color, contrast and brightness, automates processes of improving large volumes of photos.
Designer
In our opinion, one of the most worthy AI tools from Microsoft for generating graphics and designs. There are templates that you can customize, for example, make in corporate colors. Especially good for creating website banners and ad creatives. Offers captions and hashtags for publishing generated images to social networks.
Bing Image Creator
Developed by Microsoft. Offers several image variations on a specific prompt. Supports Ukrainian language. Also a pretty decent analog of Midjourney and DALL-E 2.
Uizard.io
Designs hand-drawn images. Just upload your sketch to the application and Uizard automatically adds your design. You can do the same with a screenshot of any website or app – the AI-assistant uses it as the main reference and will develop a mockup based on it. It also offers ready-made templates for mobile/desktop devices, tablets, web applications.
Create interactive prototypes, test different styles, share them with your team and generally automate your design processes in real time.
Flair.ai
If you need to customize the background for your product cards, Flair.ai is the perfect choice. You simply drag and drop a product photo, use a text query to describe the environment, edit visual objects and that’s it – export your branded content. Suitable not only for product cards, but also for creating banners and ads on social networks.
Genius.design
A plugin for Figma that understands what you’re designing and makes suggestions that automatically augment the design using components from your design system.
Everything happens in real time. For example, when you start creating a form interface, Genius.design automatically adds all the elements you need: input fields, buttons, and the like.
Booth.ai
Helps you quickly create life-style photos of products with very high quality. You upload a photo to Booth.ai (not even professional ones), provide a description that will allow you to adapt the image to your brand, and it will put the product on a person.
As you can see, instead of creating design approaches by trial and error, artificial intelligence tools will allow you as a UI/UX designer to develop predictive models based on user data and automatically apply them to your projects.