The Artificial Intelligence (AI) market is projected to reach an astounding $294.16 billion in 2025. With this rapid growth, AI is making its way into various industries, including UX design. Naturally, this has sparked concerns among professionals about job security.
In our recent survey on AI awareness, the biggest concern people expressed was the fear of losing their jobs to AI. But is that the case? Or is it time to shift our perspective and see AI not as a threat, at least for now, but as a powerful tool that can help us stay ahead?
As a UX designer, embracing AI could be the key to upskilling. In this article, we’ll explore how you can leverage AI to enhance your design skills and stay competitive in the ever-evolving landscape.
Impact of AI in the field of UX
AI is rapidly changing the field of UX research and design by enabling designers to work more efficiently, automate the research process, and produce design elements at previously unheard-of speeds. For instance, it used to take weeks to turn hand-drawn ideas into interactive prototypes, but now platforms like Uizard can do it in a matter of minutes.
According to NN Group’s article on AI in design, AI may assist professionals in producing deliverables faster, help in assisting user research by suggesting a list of research methodologies to adopt and drafting questionnaires, providing actionable insights from a large amount of data, and more, but it can’t replace them. User research done by AI is not rational, and we still require real humans to perform research on and convey that with our designs, which AI has yet to cover.
Fundamentally, UX design will always involve thoroughly grasping human requirements and designing functional products that represent everyday human experiences.
Benefits of using AI in UX design
Only those who prepare for an AI-driven world will succeed and take a step further in their professional life than those who don’t. That said, let’s explore some of the key benefits of using AI in UX.
- AI tools like Chat GPT and Gemini can help researchers analyse large amounts of data without manual work. You can share your user responses in Excel sheets or PDFs and get actionable data within minutes.
- Writing microcopy and digital content for products has always been a challenge for many designers. At times, one has to wait for input from the marketing team or clients, which often leaves screens filled with placeholder text. While AI can assist in drafting functional copies for digital products, it’s important to understand that it can only provide initial drafts for testing purposes. Ultimately, a deep understanding of the audience and the product is essential—something that can only be truly achieved by humans.
- It also helps save UX designers a lot of time and effort. Instead of starting out with a blank canvas, AI can help UX designers to set up a base in their ideation process by providing various iterations of a workflow to go through. It can also help in ideating and how the overall information architecture may work around the product.
- It can also help UX researchers to automate tasks and conduct basic user and product research, saving them time and letting them focus on more strategic product-related decisions.
- The utility of AI tools extends far beyond individual freelancers and solo designers, proving equally advantageous for collaborative product teams. Platforms such as FigJam AI and Miro facilitate seamless teamwork across diverse product development stages, encompassing wireframing, prototyping, research, design, and even the efficient hand-off to developers. This integration of AI within collaborative platforms streamlines workflows and enhances overall team productivity.
Can UX designers solely rely on AI?
The short answer is NO. AI has its benefits and can help in many ways. But it’s far from replacing UX designers for now. Previously, we discussed AI’s potential in UX, but we also need to understand that the current output of AI lacks vision.
Researchers or designers can use AI-driven design as a starting point for their work, but not as an outcome. Even AI tools like Chat GPT mention that their outcomes might not be factual, and one needs to fact-check things from credible sources.
The use of AI should always be seen as a starting point and not as a replacement for a human. We as humans are able to analyse behavioural patterns with more precision than AI and curate products that actually solve a problem.
Tools for using AI in UX design
Jasper
Imagine you pour your heart and soul into your research and design, only to fall behind in content, which makes your wireframes or prototypes soulless. Designers usually use dummy text to fill that void, but rather than helping, it raises more questions about the design.
Jasper helps designers create near-deployment product copy that not only aligns with the brand but is also user-centric and SEO friendly.
Uizard
Uizard is an AI tool that helps in ideation and design automation. It lets you convert your sketches into actionable design templates, speeding up the prototyping.
It also lets you collaborate with your team members and developers in sync. Multiple members can communicate on the same design projects while enabling designers to easily hand off design files to the developers, from where they can generate React code for any design component.
Midjourney
Midjourney is another AI tool that designers love. It can help you to generate high-quality images from textual descriptions, making your designs more visually pleasing. It all depends on your imagination, and the sky is the limit with this tool.
Earlier, it was only available as a bot on Discord, but now it has its web app, allowing it to reach a wider audience. For those who might feel it to be a bit technical, Midjourney has provided a user manual for a quick walkthrough.
Galileo AI
Galileo works similarly to Uizard, it can help designers design UI screens with just a single line of prompt. There are two ways in which Galileo can generate UI screens with the help of AI.
- Text to UI: In this, the user can provide a prompt, describing the different aspects of the UI to get an output, which can be later tweaked with the help of prompt engineering or by the creativity of designers themselves.
- Image to UI: One can upload a JPG or PNG image of their UI concept, and Galileo will do the pending work. When you upload the image, it will ask you how you want to modify it, and the AI algorithm will convert the image with the help of the given prompt into a functional UI screen, which can be further modified.
The best part is, you can either modify the UI on Galielo itself or take the file to your Figma drafts. It also provides working codes enabling a faster development stage.
Framer
Framer was already a go-to no-code website development tool because of how easy it was to integrate it with Figma. But since it has implemented AI in its workflow, it is leaving its competitors far behind. With the help of Framer AI, you can create a fully functional website page with just a single prompt, which can be refined with prompt engineering or as you may like!
But that’s not it. While the AI is working on your prompt, it ensures that the output is delivered in every screen size, along with the product copy, colour palette, and typography recommendations, so that you have a close-to-final product to review and make changes as needed.
Conclusion
Adopting AI in 2025 is not a choice but a necessity for UX designers—it’s a matter of staying competitive in an ever-evolving digital universe. We talked about the benefits of AI, where it is lacking, and the right tools for each use case.
Now it’s up to us as designers to prepare for AI and use it as it was intended to be, i.e., as an assistant to help us streamline our design process. You can either start by adopting the tools we highlighted in this article or research on your own to figure out which tool fits best for you and your team as per the use cases.
At UserQ, we leverage the use of AI in our tools to help you write your research-fit surveys in minutes, saving you time and effort. Try it out today by creating your free account, and stay ahead in the UX industry and gain valuable insights by exploring more of our articles.
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