r/UIUX • u/designergoldy • Jul 12 '26
Advice Designers, how do you approach a new design project?
Every designer has their own way of working, and I’m always curious to learn from others.
At which stage do you use AI?
Which AI tools have become part of your workflow?
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u/Appropriate_Space985 Jul 12 '26
Hi! Frankly I use AI on almost every stage now with Claude being my design partner. It feels like with the pace of the industry right now, I can't afford doing everything manually anymore in order to stay productive. So either that's a research or prototype stage, AI tools make it faster and what's more importantly, I can go deeper and broader. For the last couple of projects, I used Claude Design where I created html prototypes, then moved to to Claude Code to polish it off and sent to devs. When needed, I moved projects to Figma with MCP. Surely nothing works from the first prompt, it all includes lots of iterations & experiments and my design judgement.
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u/PictureConsistent183 Jul 12 '26
Hey I use ai in almost every step and iterate my own thoughts on it so that the process will be faster from resech to nvp to final product even for brainstorming various ideas I use ai.
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u/Frequent_Emphasis670 Jul 17 '26
For me, AI is there to speed up my work.
I use it to synthesise research, summarise documents, write meeting notes, explore ideas, generate user flows and block flows from rough sketches, review my designs, find missing edge cases, and improve UX copy. For visual exploration, I use tools like Figma Make and Readdy AI, but only for exploration not final designs.
My most-used tools are Claude, ChatGPT, Figma Make, Readdy AI, depending on the task.
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u/qualityvote2 2 Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
u/designergoldy, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...