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What senior designers actually use.

AI design tools, organized by the stage of the work — research to ship. Real picks from designers doing it, with a preview and free-or-paid at a glance. Not another ranked list.

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Design system from a screenshot
Free

Have Claude or Cursor derive tokens and components from a UI screenshot.

ShipUI
PRD → prototype in one pass
Free

Feed a product brief to Magic Patterns or Lovable for a clickable prototype.

WireframePrototype
Real content, not lorem
Free

Generate realistic, on-brand placeholder copy with ChatGPT or Claude.

Content
Round-trip design and code
Free

Push v0 or Subframe output back into Figma to keep design and code in sync.

Ship
Screenshot → editable design
Free

Paste a screenshot into Figma Make or v0 to get an editable build.

WireframePrototype
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