AI Design Tools
UI, logo, presentation and layout generation for designers and non-designers alike.
6 tools
- CanvaDesign platform with AI generation built into a template-based editor.Official: canva.comfrom $15/mo
- MidjourneyImage generator known for a distinctive aesthetic that needs little prompt tuning.Official: midjourney.comfrom $10/mo
- GammaGenerates presentations and documents that adapt layout automatically.Official: gamma.appfrom $10/mo
- FramerWebsite builder that generates and publishes real sites, not mockups.Official: framer.comfrom $10/mo
- IdeogramImage generator specialising in typography and text-heavy designs.Official: ideogram.aifrom $8/mo
- Leonardo.AiImage platform aimed at game and product art, with reusable trained styles.Official: leonardo.aifrom $12/mo
Design tools with AI in them span from slide decks that lay themselves out to systems that generate interface screens from a description. The consistent theme across the category is that generating something that looks designed is now easy, and the hard part has moved to whether the result is editable, consistent and yours.
What to look at when choosing
Editable output or a flat picture
This is the dividing line in the category. A tool that hands you layers, components and real text can be taken into a normal design workflow and iterated. One that hands you a flattened image gives you something to look at and nothing to work with — fine for a mood board, useless for anything that needs a second round. Check what actually comes out before you commit a project to it.
Generated screens are not a design system
A tool can produce twenty attractive screens that share no spacing scale, no type ramp and no reusable components. That looks like progress and is technical debt: the inconsistency surfaces later, during build, when every screen needs different code. If the work is a real product rather than a pitch, judge these tools on whether they respect tokens and components you define, not on how the first screen looks.
Brand assets are the wrong job for generation
A logo has to work at favicon size and on a building, in one colour, in print, for years. Generated raster output satisfies none of those requirements, and the resulting file cannot be cleanly redrawn from. Use these tools to explore directions if it helps, then have the actual mark drawn as vector.
When you probably do not need one
If you have a design system and a designer, these tools mostly speed up the parts that were already fast. Their clearest value is for people without a designer who need something presentable — a deck, a landing page, a first draft to react to — where the alternative is not a better design but no design at all.