6/6: Leveraging AI as a collaborator throughout the UX process
Learn about a range of tools that you can leverage to more quickly brainstorm, improve design efficiency, speed up user research, generate creative assets and content and tell better stories.
Browse full 6 part series written by Dilip Jagadeesh and Kristina Rakestraw
Let’s bust a myth right off the bat — AI is not here to snatch your design job. It’s here to help you take your craft to the next level. Think of it as the Robin to your Batman in software design — enhancing and extending your skills, not overshadowing or replacing them.
There are countless AI powered tools you can begin to incorporate into your workflow to make processes more efficient and increase productivity with communicating to others, understanding user behavior, automating mundane tasks and generating alternative ideas faster. Doing so allows you to focus on solving nuances in complex problems and fine tuning experiences.
Forbes Advisor recently summarized how 600 business owners are using artificial intelligence in 2024 — with “64% of [the 600] businesses believ[ing] that artificial intelligence will help increase their overall productivity in some form” (Source).
Below we’ve explored a range of tools you can explore applying during various phases of your creative process.
Getting started and brainstorming faster
Starting at a blank page can be both liberating and intimidating at the same time. You can try to leverage the following AI tools to get projects off the ground faster.
Generate and organizing ideas with FigJam AI
Has interactive tools to help generate and organize ideas. It can suggest related ideas, create templates or fill in information to speed things up.
Generating ideas around a new topic using ChatGPT
Helps you find quick answers to questions, generate initial ideas and suggest material for you to explore.
Improving design efficiency and inclusivity
There are a lot of design tasks that are very time and energy intensive so we recommend trying out some tools to help you save time and ensure you can focus your energy wisely.
Creating color patterns with Khroma
Creates personalized and harmonious color-palette — leveraging your preferences — to streamline the color selection process for designers and artists.
Leveraging a design sidekick with Magician for figma
Helps to streamline the design process by automating tasks such as layout adjustments and color scheme applications to help boost efficiency and creativity for designers.
Crafting dynamic UI layouts with Dynamicyield
Enables hyper customization in product experience in order to personalize layouts in real-time, adapt to user preferences and craft engaging experiences to improve customer satisfaction.
Speeding up font pairing with Fontjoy
Helps you more quickly pair fonts that work well together by quickly analyzing characteristics.
Quickly generating wireframes with Uizard
Helps you convert hand-drawn sketches into digital wireframes, simplifying the design process and making website and app layout creation more accessible and efficient.
Translate design into code with Fronty
Helps transform website design images into HTML and CSS code, speeding up the transition from visual concepts to functional prototypes and making it a valuable tool for designers and developers alike.
Improving inclusivity with Userway
Offers a range of tools to measure and adjust experiences to ensure compliance with standards. It provides recommendations to help optimize the experience for screen readers, users leverage keyboard for navigation and to improve color contrast.
Improving inclusivity with Accessibe
Helps to optimize and provide recommendations that help you align with standards and includes features that help to optimize for screen readers, keyboard navigation and color contrast.
Improving inclusivity with Stark
Enables you to make the digital experience more inclusive by improving accessibility through features such as color contrast checks and vision simulation to ensure products meet accessibility standards and reaches a broader audience.
Speeding up user research and large scale analysis
Research and analysis is all about listening and looking for patterns in data — something humans are good at yet machines are faster at. From quick data collection to pattern recognition to predictions — these tools can help us move the needle.
Creating surveys with Hotjar
Helps you save time creating and analyzing surveys.
Creating surveys with Chatgpt
Helps you create simple, unbiased and well structured surveys.
Creation personas with Persona builder
Assists with crafting fictional characters to help tell the story of customer segments. It does this by analyzing large sets of data, identifying patterns and crafting personas.
Generating a user test and analyzing interviews with Maze & Notably
Can be used together to craft interview scripts and tests. Maze helps with setting up and analyzing user tests and Notably helps with organizing and analyzing data from interviews.
Enhancing user test insights with Visualeyes
Helps with analyzing how users visually interact with something and gives you measured insights on what draws users attention and what doesn’t so you know where to focus on refinements to the experience.
Enhancing user test insights with Neurons Inc
Helps leverage neuroscience in the realm of user testing to provide you with measured insights around users’ unconscious and emotional responses.
Speeding up user test analysis with Usertesting.com
Uses AI to quickly analyze user feedback into actionable insights.
Analyzing large sets of data with DataRobot
Helps to analyze lots of data to identify patterns that help with decision making.
Analyzing large sets of data with Research AI
Helps you to quickly analyze user data, uncovering patterns and insights to improve understanding of user behavior and preferences, making it a powerful tool for boosting the user research process.
Analyzing large sets of data with Monekylearn
Helps you to analyze textual data like customer feedback, automating categorization and sentiment analysis to reveal trends and insights for better decision-making and building out product strategies.
Generating creative assets and content
While it takes a keen eye to fine tune visual refinements, leveraging tools can help you generate alternatives to avoid falling in love with your first idea. Crafting quick alternatives for content to avoid the trap of staring at a blank page and quickly fine tune the message with suggestions.
Generating assets with Looka
Allows you to quickly create design assets by suggesting styles, layouts and designs based on input. A good example to test it out is to try generating a brand logo.
Generating assets with Stockimg.ai
Helps you generate creative assets using stock images.
Generating assets with Midjourney
Helps you rapidly generate unique creative assets leveraging complex algorithms.
Generating assets with Dalle-2
A program that generates creative assets quickly and creatively.
Generating assets with Canva
Offers a range of templates to pick from to simplify the decision making process and required skill of making creative assets.
Generate content with Copy.ai
Helps with generating quick drafts of contents such as for blocks, social media, marketing or even emails.
Generate content with writer.com
Helps with generating high-quality, consistent and personalized content to streamline professional and on-brand communication.
Generate content with Persado
Helps with generating persuasive content to improve marketing material.
Crafting presentations and telling better stories
The ability to effectively communicate with stakeholders takes a balance of patience, thoughtfulness and skill. AI can help bridge that gap through generating options, adding personalized touch, ensuring consistency throughout the message and analyzing their feedback.
Crafting presentations with Slidesai.io
Helps you create presentations in seconds. All you have to do is add the prepared text, choose a template to customize the look and then tweak the display if needed.
Generating presentations with Tome.app
Enter one prompt, and Tome AI will create an entire presentation using AI-generated content and images. It uses machine learning algorithms to analyze text and data and then creates a slide board with text, photos, and other media to convey the information effectively.
Crafting presentations with voice-over with Murf.ai
Allows you to make presentations with voiceover. You can select different tones, accents, and styles to captivate your audience with your story.
Improving presentations with 3M VAS
Helps enhance the impact and effectiveness of presentations and storytelling leveraging algorithms that analyze visual content and make suggestions.
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