5 Ways Our Design Team Are Leveraging AI Tools

🤖 AI continues to be a hot topic nearly a year after ChatGPT launched.

A few months ago our design team spent time playing with different AI tools to better understand what they can accomplish and how we could benefit from them.

5 ways we’ve continued to leverage AI…

1/ Midjourney for creative inspiration

Midjourney is amazing for generating imagery.

We typically don’t use Midjourney for the final designs, but it is great for ideas and inspiration.

It can also come in helpful as a replacement to using stock photography.

2/ Claude.ai for user research

Claude (by Anthropic) is great for summarizing things like blog posts, podcast transcripts, or user research notes.

After capturing notes from usability tests or discovery calls, we use AI to help summarize.

3/ Figma plugins

There are several useful AI Figma plugins in the community.

Like most designers, we often find ourselves needing lorem ipsum, e.g. a list of campaign names for a design.

Instead of writing them out, we’ll ask AI to fill in those campaign names for us.

4/ Generating ideas and kickstarting discovery

AI is great for just kickstarting things.

For a conference we were attending we used ChatGPT to generate ideas for a theme, booth design & swag we could give away. It helped us quickly align as a team on what we wanted to do.

5/ Design system documentation

We document our design system in Supernova.

We’ll use ChatGPT to generate a boilerplate for new components, including what they are & how to use them, then edit to ensure it matches our guidelines.

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All in all we’re not taking the generative AI output verbatim, but it can certainly get you 80% of the way there and kick start things.

I’d love to hear from other designers and design teams on this topic. How are you using AI in your daily or weekly workflows?

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