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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.

By the job to be doneAttached to real namesFree or paid, up frontUpdated monthly

Make the real, high-fidelity thing.

Design UI

31 results
Cosmos
Freemium

AI-tagged visual moodboard and inspiration discovery.

IdeateUI
Design System Audit (Cursor)
Free

Audit a codebase design system and reconcile tokens with Cursor.

ShipUI
Design system from a screenshot
Free

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

ShipUI
Fontjoy
Free

AI font pairing generator

UIVisuals
Framer
Freemium

Design that ships as a site

UIPrototype
Khroma
Free

AI color palettes from your preferences

UIVisuals
Mobbin
Freemium

Real app UI, fully searchable

IdeateUI
Onlook
Free

Open-source visual editor for live React codebases.

UIWireframe
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
Coolors
Freemium

Color palette generator

UIVisuals
DesignBookmark
Free

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

IdeateUI
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
Knapsack
Paid

Enterprise DS integration platform

ShipUI
Lucide
Free

Clean open-source icon set

VisualsUI
Penpot
Free

Open-source, self-hostable design

UIPrototype
Phosphor Icons
Free

Flexible icon family with six hand-drawn weights.

VisualsUI
Realtime Colors
Free

Preview color palettes and fonts live on a real layout.

UIVisuals
recent.design
Free

Curated AI design tools, skills, and inspiration.

IdeateUI
Sketch
Paid

Native-Mac vector design

UIPrototype
Smart Interface Design Patterns
Free

AI design patterns and curated AI-for-designers skills.

IdeateUI
Stark
Freemium

AI accessibility compliance for design

ShipUI
Style Dictionary
Free

Open-source build system turning tokens into any platform.

ShipUI
Supernova
Freemium

Design system management platform

ShipUI
There's An AI For That
Free

Searchable index of AI tools for every task.

IdeateUI
Tokens Studio
Freemium

Design token management for Figma

ShipUI
Zeroheight
Freemium

Design system documentation hub

ShipUI

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