Top 9 A.I. Tools for Designers

A I tools are all the rage right now .

They are flooding the market .

And for good reason in recent history , we've been able to offload mundane and repetitive tasks to computers so they can just process them in the background , saving us tons of time .

But A I can now do some really interesting creative and unique things as designers and creative of people .

We should be leveraging these tools and using them in our workflows not being fearful of them .

So in this video , I'm going to share with you nine A I tools that you can start using right now as a creative , I'm gonna tell you where to get them , how to use them and some recommendations on how you might leverage them into your workflow to give you superpowers .

Alright , let's dive into the first category which is words and we can't talk about generating words with artificial intelligence without talking about the gigantic elephant in the room .

And that's chat GP T if you've been living under a rock for the past six months , chat GP T is an artificial intelligence based chat bot that allows you to interact with the brain that is the artificial intelligence via a series of text prompts .

So that means we can ask chat GP T to write us a blog post about shoes and it's gonna spit out a blog post about shoes .

We can ask it to then lengthen that blog post or shorten it to get more specific to write about a certain type of shoes .

We can even ask it to take on certain characteristics , like ask it to be smarter or funnier or wittier and it will tweak and change the writing based on the prompts that you insert .

So chat GP T can do a lot of things .

But how should you be using Chat GP T to really leverage it and get tons of value out of it right now ?

Well , I think obviously you can have chat GP T do all of that writing stuff that maybe you're not so great at .

Ask it for copy for your website , ask it for seo recommendations , ask it to fill in Lom Ipsum because Lorem ipsum sucks .

And you'd rather actually have something written and your clients will be wowed by it .

But also maybe take the next steps and ask it to do something that's a little bit more complex which is respond back to you from a very specific point of view .

I've been asking Chat G BT to respond to me as if it were the users in which I'm designing for .

I'm treating it like my user personas I'm asking it tons of questions about how it uses applications and what types of things it's looking for .

And I'm getting back .

Very interesting results .

You can also ask Chad GP T to be your own personal design or business coach .

Tell it to fill the role of an experienced web design agency owner that's making high six figures and working with awesome clients .

And they've been doing that for the last 15 years .

Then ask it questions about how you might write your proposals , your contracts , how you might speak to your clients and you'll get really quick results .

This tool is learning as you interact with it .

So continue to tweak and change your prompts and you'll get better and better results and you'll likewise be training it to respond better in the future .

Our next up on the list when it comes to words is Jasper A I .

Jasper does a lot of different stuff , but it's a really phenomenal tool .

If you need help writing creative words , it's a little bit different than chat GP T which feels very much like a blank canvas .

Jasper A I on the other hand , feels a little bit more user friendly .

A little , a little bit more intuitive .

They have an entire template section that you can filter down on the type of content you're looking for to create , you can head over to the website tab , you can get headlines and body copy , you can get value propositions .

Everything's very organized and easy to understand there .

But then you can jump right over to the product category .

You can get an Amazon product description and ebay listing .

There's just all sorts of things you can do there and it's very easy to kind of jump off and have a starting point inside of Jasper .

How can you start leveraging Jasper into your everyday creative work ?

I would highly recommend using all those templates , using the recipes , mixing and matching and saving some of your own .

As you go , you'll start building a little bit of a library as well as your own personal knowledge base on what you can possibly do with Jasper .

All right .

Last one on the list when it comes to words and this is gonna be notion A I .

That's right notion which is my favorite note taking organization kind of like life productivity application has recently released their A I feature .

It's super integrated right into your normal notion workflow .

So while I'm typing , while I'm working , while I'm kind of managing everything , all I have to do is type a slash open up that kind of drop down quick action box .

And it gives me the option to utilize A I .

The A I that notion is using is pretty good .

I don't know exactly where they're drawing it from , but it doesn't feel like it's quite as effective or full-fledged as something like chat GP T .

But the fact that it is tied and integrated right into the tool you're already using .

So you don't have to open up a browser tab .

You don't have to open up something else and figure out OK , I'm gonna grab this and copy and paste it .

It's right here .

Notions A I will allow you to write things from scratch , tweak them , change them , make them longer , write you outlines , lists , all the general stuff that any of the other tools can do .

But again , it's just integrated right into the tool .

All right , let's talk about the next category of A I tools , which is all about imagery .

Dolly is an A I system that creates realistic art and imagery in a similar ways .

Chat G PT by interacting with it via text based prompts .

Basically , you're gonna do a similar thing here which is input a bunch of text prompts inside of Dolly and it's gonna generate unique and mind-blowing artwork and the more complex and nuanced and niche .

Your text prompts are the better and better the artwork or imagery gets .

Not only can you generate artwork from scratch , but you can also upload imagery and photos into dolly and it will utilize that imagery and pull it into whatever you're trying to create .

So how can you use dolly right now in your creative work ?

I always think it's fun to over deliver , to do something a little bit extra to get that .

Wow , out of my clients and my stakeholders .

So sure if my client wants some concepts , maybe some mood boards , something to look at some directions .

Of course , I could deliver them some layouts with some colors , yada , yada yada .

I could use something like dolly to generate some mind-blowing imagery that I would insert .

I can use .

Maybe the images of their already established products mix and mingle them and show them something that's unique , original mind-blowing .

I can then add a little chat GP T and replace the Lorem Ipsum .

And I have a full blown marketing page that's unique and interesting .

That's like nothing else .

Next up in the category of imagery is Mid journey .

Mid journey is another tool that's an A I BASED system that allows you through a series of prompts to create unique illustrations and artwork .

Now , this one's a little bit tricky because the interface that you actually interface with is a Discord channel .

You're gonna sign up for a free Mid Journey account .

It's gonna kick you over the Discord channel .

You're gonna choose one of the channels on the left hand side type slash imagine .

And then there go your prompts and then you have to wait for it to generate your artwork .

But the problem is that there's thousands of other people generating artwork at the same time .

So the feed is just going super fast and it feels a little weird .

But once it generates your artwork , it's gonna generate a series of four selections and then you can actually drill down on any one of those four selections and have it continue generating in that path .

So it is kind of fun .

It's a little bit like the Marvel cinematic universe Multiverse where there's branches of branches of branches and you can always go back to a previous branch and start a new branch .

So have fun with that .

How can you start using mid journey right now in your creative work ?

Well , the way that I like to use mid journey is not so much for that end result , final imagery and artwork way , but instead the beginning of the concept process .

So I head into mid journey and feed it a bunch of prompts to design me some layouts for a website that have these specific requirements and see what it feeds me back .

And then I'll start choosing and riffing off of some of those selections until I get some results that I actually kind of like .

Then I'll pull them out of mid journey and I'll riff on them in my design tool like fig A or XD .

There you go .

We've gotten a huge fast forward in the concept process that allowed me to deliver initial concepts to the client .

Another image based A I tool is one you've actually already heard of .

And this is Jasper again .

What I like about Jasper is that it does words and images all in the same place .

It's not separate projects , separate sites , but one site , it is a little bit expensive , but you can sign up for this one account of jasper and have access to all of it right there .

And again , it's super user friendly .

Let's move to the third category of A I tools which is design specific tools .

First on the list is a magical little tool called magician .

Magician is a plug in that works inside of fig MA .

It's already integrated inside of FIG A and it uses A I to generate words , icons and imagery , which is kind of mind blowing magician is a couple bucks a month , in my opinion , pretty worth it .

Not a sponsored video , just really , really enjoy it .

But all you have to do is download , install the plug in , get it running and then you can feed it text based prompts directly in the plug in and it will generate things for you on the fly .

We're talking about generating icon for you on the fly , imagery for you on the fly or selecting words inside of your layout and saying fix these words , make these words better .

So it's all the things we've already talked about but simplified into a nice clean , simple little fig a plug in .

How can you start using magician inside of your workflow right now ?

If you're a fig a user , download it and start using it , that's it .

It does all the things we've already talked about from the other A I tools , it just happens to do it right inside of fig A .

So that's , that , that's how you'd use it .

All right .

Are you ready for a mind blowing A I driven design tool ?

OK .

This one has to do with color and it's called chroma .

Chroma is a free tool to use .

You log on to the website .

It's gonna ask you to select a series of colors that you enjoy .

It's going to build a model of the types of colors and pairings of colors that you prefer to use and it's gonna spit out a slew of color palettes and color matches that you can start using in the beginnings of your design work .

How can you start using chroma inside of your work ?

Well , if I'm starting a project , it's fun to use chrome to kickstart that exploration and ideation process .

I start concept and building ideas of what types of colors and matches of colors might work .

Well , you can scroll endlessly on other color palette sites , hopefully add in some hashtags or keywords that might get you close or you can try something like chroma and let the artificial intelligence algorithm , computer brains do the work for you .

OK ?

Last step in the design category is probably the worst and best A I tool of them all at the same time .

Let me explain .

Durable is an A I tool that will help you build a website in 30 seconds that is its claim build you a website for your company in 30 seconds or less .

This is like a pizza delivery kind of thing where if it doesn't build my website , do I get it for free ?

Is that what we're doing ?

If you head over to durables website , it will allow you to click the button and start generating your website .

It's gonna ask your location , what your industry is .

What's the name of it ?

And then from that , it's going to using artificial intelligence , it's gonna create you a landing page for your website .

This means it's gonna generate a full website with a hero area and headline and maybe some sort of subhead line and about us section , maybe some value propositions for your company and some other structural pieces all the way down the page until you get to the footer .

Now , here's why it's one of the worst A I tools because the website that it designs is pretty atrocious .

It's not great .

You know , there's some structure there that's open .

OK ?

But overall like no one's launched a website that looks like this .

That's , it's real rough .

Here's why it might be the best A I tool out of all of them though .

The websites that durable is creating right now are about 15 years in the past .

If A I continues to advance , which it will and durable stays the course and advances how they use that A I and leverage it in their process .

We might see the website stop looking like they're from the nineties and then move to the early two thousands and then from the early two thousands to 2020 and we all of a sudden might be making A I websites that are putting web designers out of a job because they're managing the , copy the imagery , the layout , the responsiveness all at once .

So that's why it might be the best and the worst because it might put us out of a job .

Don't be scared , it'll be fine .

My advice is to not be afraid of A I but instead jump in with both feet , excited , learn , grow in these tools and start leveraging them in your creative work .

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I hope you're having an amazing week .

I hope you're designing amazing things , making amazing things .

And joining me in the future by using these A I tools .

See you in the next one .