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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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Onlook
Free

Open-source visual editor for live React codebases.

UIWireframe
Photoroom
Freemium

AI background removal and product photos

Visuals
Pika
Freemium

AI text-to-video and editing

Motion
Polycam
Freemium

AI 3D capture and scanning

VisualsMotion
PRD → prototype in one pass
Free

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

WireframePrototype
ProtoPie
Freemium

Prototypes that feel real

WireframePrototype
Real content, not lorem
Free

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

Content
Recraft
Freemium

On-brand vector sets, consistent

Visuals
Relume
Freemium

Sitemaps and wireframes by AI

WireframePrototype
Replit
Freemium

AI collaborative coding platform

PrototypeShip
Round-trip design and code
Free

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

Ship
Runway
Freemium

Generative video and edits

Motion
Screenshot → editable design
Free

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

WireframePrototype
Subframe
Freemium

Visual editor that ships production React plus Tailwind.

Ship
Uizard
Freemium

AI UI design and prototyping

WireframePrototype
Usability Walkthrough (Figma Make)
Free

Run an AI usability walkthrough on a Figma Make build.

Research
UX Pilot
Paid

AI copilot for UX design in Figma

WireframePrototype
UX Research Synthesis (Claude)
Free

Turn raw interviews into themes and insights with Claude.

Research
Visily
Freemium

AI wireframing from screenshots or text

WireframePrototype
Windsurf
Freemium

AI code editor by Codeium

PrototypeShip
Womp
Freemium

Beginner-friendly browser 3D modeling with AI.

VisualsMotion
AI UX Playground
Free

SKILL.md library and AI UX experiments for designers.

IdeateUI
Are.na
Freemium

Algorithm-free visual research and connected thinking.

IdeateUI
Cavalry
Free

Procedural, node-based motion graphics tool, now free.

Motion
Coolors
Freemium

Color palette generator

UIVisuals
Descript
Freemium

AI video/podcast editor

Content
DesignBookmark
Free

2,000+ curated design and AI tools, by category.

IdeateUI
Dovetail
Paid

Tag and theme research, fast

Research
Excalidraw
Free

Hand-drawn flows in seconds

IdeateWireframe
Figma
Freemium

Where the real design happens

UIPrototype
Fontshare
Free

Free high-quality typefaces from Indian Type Foundry.

UIVisuals
Framer AI
Freemium

AI website builder with CMS

UIWireframe
Godly
Free

Astronomically good web design inspiration.

IdeateUI
Iconify
Free

Unified API serving 200,000+ open-source icons.

VisualsUI
Jitter
Freemium

Motion for designers, no After Effects

Motion
Knapsack
Paid

Enterprise DS integration platform

ShipUI

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