Top 20 AI Tools for UX designers and Web Designers to Try in this year
AI-powered solutions have many advantages. They greatly outweigh the disadvantages and increase the productivity of UX and web designers.
They streamline workflows and free up our time for creative work. In this post, I’ve compiled AI tools that are worth implementing.
What can UX and web designers do with AI-based technologies?
I’ll highlight a few benefits:
- Easier generation of images and micro text.
- Improving images and styling them.
- Faster photo processing.
- Faster background removal.
- Converting sketches into stylish illustrations.
- Conducting case studies and creating UX briefs for informed design decisions.
- Quickly create templates and layouts.
- Promptly create unique icons for websites and applications.
- Select the colour palette and simplify the creation of the design system.
- Automation of routine tasks.
Of course, the pros are much more.
The best AI tools you should test
Colormind
Colormind is a tool that appeared a few years ago. It learns colour styles from photos, films, and artworks and has collected a massive database of colour palettes. You can use this AI-based tool to inspire and find the perfect colour scheme.
Conveniently, you can upload a photo and extract colour combinations from it. You can also automatically embed the ready-made colour schemes into the website or app pages you create, so you can look at the result and decide.
Khroma
Khroma is an artificial intelligence-based tool that can be trained by selecting 50 colours you like.
The app generates an infinite number of colour palettes based on your preferences. They can be shown on ready-made templates. You can also test the chosen colour palette on your images.
Postcards AI — email designer
If you are tired of designing email templates, use Postcards AI. It’s the first AI-powered email builder that fundamentally changes how you approach the routine process.
Postcards AI is said to speed up the email creation process by a factor of 20. It’s worth a try!
Vance AI
Vance AI is a tool that does a great job with image processing and automatic photo editing. You can use it to remove the background, enhance the photo quality, restore photos, imitate art styles, and turn photos into a line drawings.
Vance AI excels at handling real-world detail because it uses deep convolutional neural networks trained with millions of images.
Stable Diffusion
Stable Diffusion is a relatively new free AI-based tool that promises incredible results. It generates detailed images based on a text prompt. In it, you have to describe the elements you want in the image or, conversely, which you wish to exclude. Stable Diffusion can also redraw existing ideas to include new features.
Stable Diffusion can also be used for other tasks, such as rendering a new image based on the original.
Dall-E
Dall-E is worth mentioning among the deep learning models used to create digital images from your descriptions.
This powerful artificial intelligence tool has already created a furore in creating images in certain styles. It can create realistic, high-resolution images based on your concepts with defined attributes and simulated techniques. It does a great job of creating vector images for web design.
Midjourney
Midjourney is a chatbot that communicates with users using your native language.
You can give it instructions and commands to create images, including web interfaces, making text descriptions and hints. The tool is great for brainstorming and creating original content and prototypes to show to clients at the start of a collaboration.
ChatGPT Prompts — Curated Collection
As mentioned earlier, ChatGPT has revolutionized web design and UX design challenges. All it needs to solve the problem is your instruction.
Here you can see some examples of its work — ChatGPT Prompts Examples for Web Designers.
Designs AI
Designs AI is a one-stop AI-based solution for novice web designers and anyone who has no skills but needs to create a beautiful template in minutes.
You can also use it to generate your logo, palette and fonts, which is essential for branding.
MagicBrief
This tool allows you to analyze video ads and identify successful shots to create viral ads. MagicBrief will enable you to store and organize ad links from various sources, such as TikTok and Facebook Ad Library, using an extension for Chrome. Ads are permanently stored in the MagicBrief library.
MagicBrief also automatically breaks down your current ads into key scenes so you can conveniently modify them into new versions. Check out the MagicBoard feature, which allows you to create storyboards for any project.
Chatfuel
Chatfuel is a professional online service which provides all the tools you need to develop and train chatbots. Inside the platform, you’ll find many templates and ready-made answers to the most popular questions.
However, Chatfuel is capable of much more! It actively collects user feedback and analyses common queries to automate conversations and provide your chatbot with answers that matter to your target audience. Chatfuel also segments your audience using an internal CRM, which is helpful if you’re a UX designer.
Appy Pie Website
Appy Pie is designed for those new to the website and app development. As an AI-powered web builder, it allows you to create templates and frameworks for web apps in minutes.
With Appy Pie, you can quickly create mobile apps compatible with various popular operating systems and websites. You can text what you want, and Appy Pie will generate it. The platform works with prompts, by the way.
Tricentis
Tricentis is a tool that optimizes and speeds up end-to-end testing.
It offers several features: risk-based testing, GUI and design testing, SAP testing, API testing, service virtualization, exploratory testing and so on. It’s a handy tool which you should test on your projects.
Zyro
If you need a micro text or description for a website, you can use Zyro. It will generate engaging text content for you.
Uizard
Uizard is a tool you can recommend to your clients for sketching ideas that you can then turn into excellent versions and concepts for your website or app. It’s already the next generation of popular drag-and-drop website builders.
By the way, if you don’t have an idea or a sketch, you can show Uizard some screenshots of the interfaces you like, and the AI assistant will automatically generate a unique UX design style that can become the core of your project.
Sketch to Code
Sketch to Code has been trained on millions of images and does a great job of recognizing hand-drawn web design elements, such as a text box or a button on paper and translating them into digital versions.
Consequently, in moments, you can have a web page thumbnail into a digital layout with an HTML version.
Browse AI
Browse AI is a multi-tasking digital assistant. It specializes in harvesting and monitoring data from any website you are interested in without you having to write any code.
Sensei by Adobe
Adobe Sensei is a tool that integrates with Adobe software. Its job is to develop a model of interaction with the user. Since this is a complex task, it offers many solutions to speed up and facilitate the work of web and UX designers.
Canvas by Nvidia
Canvas by Nvidia is an excellent tool for painting landscapes and pictures in different styles.
Autodraw
Autodraw is a small but exceptional AI-based tool for fast drawing. It’s a bit primitive compared to the others, but it can solve several tasks quickly and save you time.
If you’ve found the tools helpful but want to add to your list of favourites, check out my Top of Publications with AI-based agencies.
