Designers; Fear not AI .
ChatGPT will not take your job. It can make you a better Designer 🤘🏻
I want something but I don’t know what, keep creating options until I find something I like.
does this sound familiar? As a designer who got this brief from clients more times than I can count, I don’t think AI is quite ready to pull that rug from under our feet yet. ChatGPT can definitely create a fully functioning swift code for an app, but it can neither empathize with users nor deal with crazy vague UI enhancement requests from clients.
So I do not believe we have so much to fear if we learn to use AI for us instead of against us.
1. Use it to generate the exact image you are looking for. Royalty free as well.
We’ve all been there. Scrolling through pexels or unsplash for 15, 20 minutes trying to find the exact photo you need for your design. That is because we search using keywords, now you can talk to an AI image generator and ask it to make that photo for you.
Here, I asked ChatGPT to generate the prompt I need to feed an AI image generator to create a specific photo.
Then I went and took that to Canva or any AI image generator:
While some AI image generators are mind-blowing, it takes some tweaking to the prompt to get exactly what you need, that’s where being a human will be a huge advantage. Because humans can deal with vague requests, computers tend to give many results that you need to go through and filter to find the IT you’re looking for. At least in my humble opinion.
2. Make it the personal assistant you always wanted.
Design is a job. So there are some administrative things to a design job, and for that cause Google has always been our best friend but it’s infinitely better to just talk to the search engine the way you always wanted google to understand. Not search by keywords, then filter the first 1–2 results pages to find the real valid results.
3. Use it to generate quick symbols and icons.
ChatGPT can generate SVGs but isn’t perfect; you can use it to make some simple SVGs but look what happened when I asked for the Jordan Flag:
So use with caution. Make sure you check the svg before giving it to the developer implementing the UI.
On the other hand you can use autodraw to make almost any simple illustration:
4. Use it as starting point for your basic assumptions, and work your way from there.
Whether it is for UX research or marketing, it is just a starting point since this information is generated based on all the internet has taught computers over the years. So the assumption may be better than our own. But it tells you itself that this should not be treated as a fact, and so you should only use it for a more educated guess to base your initial work on.
So that was my two cents on this topic. I have so much to say and many fun posts to write but being an adult female is hard, you people. Too many things to do. But stay tuned , a fun one next time!
Lots of love, and #keepdesigning!
