AI UX design

I’ve been playing around with Ideogram again today. More and more it’s becoming an interesting prototyping tool. It has a feature called magic prompt that rewords your prompts and can take a bit of vagueness and reframe it in more detail. Also, the 4.0 model accepts very detailed JSON that uses bounding boxes to define a composition. So you can give it a description of a webpage, a game, or some other format and it will create a detailed render with variations on the user interface.

I also add some random inputs taken from different lists I’ve been collecting to give it a bit more variety.

IMAGERY: Memory & Emotion: The most effective images often tap into something deeply personal or archetypal.
STRUCTURE: Not-separateness: A deep connection where everything feels part of a single, continuous fabric
TONE: Monochromatic colors
FEEL: fragmented arcs meeting at tangents

So in a couple hours I can generate 100’s of variations of a design. The idea is not to use any of the designs directly, but to flip through them with a notebook in hand jotting down what elements I like, and what I think I’m capable of doing. And because each image is backed up with a detailed JSON prompt that shows exactly where everything is positioned, that can be fed into an AI model to work on recreating the design.

One of my next goals is to build an ad hoc image browser that can also read the JSON to show a wireframe. Then I can take notes as I go, consolidate them into a file, and feed that into an LLM to start designing an interface.