Best AI Tools for Designers in 2026

Brand Asset Creation: Generate logos, icons, illustrations, and branded visual concepts with raster and vector workflows.

Marketing Visuals: Create campaign graphics, advertisements, social assets, and promotional imagery quickly.

Image Generation: Generate high-quality images from natural-language prompts for creative and product workflows.

Brand Concepts: Explore visual directions for campaigns, products, packaging, and brand identity concepts.

Text-to-Video: Create short video concepts from natural-language prompts describing scenes, actions, and visual style.

Visual Storytelling: Explore cinematic sequences and creative concepts before moving into conventional production.

Ecommerce Product Photos: Turn ordinary product photos into clean, marketplace-ready images with background removal, resizing, lighting, and studio-style edits.

Batch Catalog Editing: Apply editing workflows across many product images to reduce repetitive manual work when preparing large ecommerce catalogs.

Cinematic Video: Generate short cinematic scenes from text and image prompts using Kling 3.0-style video generation.

Multi-shot Storytelling: Prototype connected scenes, characters, dialogue, and visual sequences for short-form storytelling.

Photo Animation: Turn static photos into short moving clips with natural-language instructions for the desired motion.

Logo Animation: Add motion to logos and brand graphics for social posts, intros, presentations, and marketing assets.

AI Video Production: Generate video concepts and clips from prompts or images for campaigns, social content, product demos, and visual storytelling.

Campaign Visuals: Create cinematic advertising concepts, product visuals, and social assets without building every shot through a traditional production pipeline.

AI Image Creation: Generate campaign images, product visuals, thumbnails, posters, and creative concepts from prompts.

AI Video Creation: Create short videos and animations from text or images using multiple integrated models.

Generate Marketing Graphics: Create social posts, promotional visuals, illustrations, and advertising concepts from text prompts and reference images.

Edit Existing Images: Use inpainting, outpainting, background removal, and object editing to refine images without rebuilding them from scratch.

Mac App Building: Turn natural-language ideas into desktop apps that run directly on Apple Silicon Macs.

Internal Utilities: Build small Mac tools for operations, productivity, data access, and repetitive team workflows.

Build browser apps: Create interactive web apps with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PyScript, then preview and publish them directly from the browser.

Convert web to Android: Package supported web projects as Android APK or AAB outputs without setting up Android Studio, Gradle, or local SDK tooling.

AI Creative Production: Generate images, videos, UGC, and other creative assets through one multi-model workspace.

Brand Content: Create repeatable visual content while using reusable workflows and brand context.

Mobile App Prototyping: Turn an app idea into working screens and functionality quickly so you can validate the concept before investing in a larger build.

MVP Development: Generate an initial mobile or web product, iterate through prompts, and use the result as a foundation for early customer testing.

Create startup marketing assets: Generate social posts, ads, landing-page graphics, pitch visuals, and campaign content from one workspace.

Build presentations quickly: Turn ideas and written content into polished presentations and supporting visual assets.

Generate Visuals: Create images, portraits, concepts, and campaign assets with AI.

Create Social Content: Produce visual variations for social posts and campaigns.

SaaS Landing Pages: Create polished SaaS marketing pages from Aceternity templates, then refine layout, copy, sections, and visuals through chat.

Product Launches: Build launch pages quickly with reusable UI blocks, AI-generated imagery, and downloadable source code for further customization.

AI Workflow Design: Build visual prompt chains and reusable AI workflows for repeatable application logic.

Agent Orchestration: Combine models, prompts, conditions, and tools into structured multi-step AI flows.

Generate Visuals: Create images, portraits, concepts, and campaign assets with AI.

Create Social Content: Produce visual variations for social posts and campaigns.

Creative Brief To Assets: Turn a brief or idea into coordinated copy, image, video, and audio production tasks.

Multi Agent Production: Use specialist agents for different media tasks while keeping the project context connected.

Create Film Scenes: Generate cinematic clips and scenes from detailed prompts, references, and visual ingredients while iterating toward a consistent story.

Prototype Stories: Explore characters, environments, camera ideas, and scene sequences before committing to traditional production workflows.

Build image generation into a product: Use supported Stable Diffusion models or APIs to add custom image generation to an application.

Run local creative workflows: Deploy compatible models locally when privacy, customization, or control matters more than convenience.

Orchestrate campaigns: Coordinate people, AI agents, content, reviews, and publishing in one workflow for complex multi-channel marketing campaigns.

Ground brand content: Use Arc Graph to connect brand guidelines, approved layouts, audience context, and other marketing knowledge to AI generation.

Turn notes into visuals: Convert written ideas, reports, and explanations into diagrams and graphics that make complex information easier to communicate.

Create pitch visuals: Build editable visual frameworks, charts, and explainers for investor decks, strategy presentations, and business proposals.

Explore Brand Palettes: Generate personalized color combinations and compare options while developing a new brand identity or visual direction.

Design UI Color Systems: Explore colors for interfaces, landing pages, dashboards, and product screens before committing to a design system.

Design With Coding Agents: Connect Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or another MCP client and let an agent create and refine interface designs directly on a shared canvas.

Build UI Concepts: Generate real HTML frames for landing pages, product interfaces, and visual concepts while keeping layouts editable and close to implementation.

AI Video Creation: Generate cinematic clips, short-form videos, and visual concepts from prompts, references, and reusable creative presets.

Creative Ad Production: Build product ads and social creatives using AI scenes, presenters, effects, and repeatable campaign workflows.

Launch Startup Branding: Create a logo, color palette, typography, and starter brand assets quickly when launching a new company or product.

Create Marketing Assets: Generate reusable branded templates for social posts, ads, business cards, presentations, proposals, and other collateral.

Website Planning: Generate structured sitemaps and page outlines from a brief to establish the information architecture of a marketing site.

Wireframing: Turn sitemaps into responsive wireframes with components and copy that can be refined collaboratively.

Generate Visuals: Create images, portraits, concepts, and campaign assets with AI.

Create Social Content: Produce visual variations for social posts and campaigns.

Update Ad Copy: Replace headlines, offers, prices, dates, and calls to action inside existing ad graphics without rebuilding the entire creative.

Localize Images: Translate embedded text in promotional graphics and create localized versions while preserving the surrounding visual design.

Visual Generation: Generate or edit images and visual assets directly inside Figma using natural-language prompts.

Prototype Creation: Turn design ideas into interactive prototypes faster with Figma Make and AI-assisted workflows.

Prompt-to-App Prototyping: Turn product ideas into functional web prototypes through natural-language prompts instead of starting from an empty design file.

Design-to-Code Exploration: Bring existing Figma designs and components into Make to explore working interfaces while preserving design context.

AI Image Creation: Generate and iterate on visual concepts in real time for campaigns, product mockups, social content, branding, and creative exploration.

AI Video Generation: Create and edit AI video using supported models and paid-plan capabilities for motion concepts, social assets, and creative production.

Generate UI Concepts: Describe a product or user goal and generate high-fidelity interface concepts that can be refined directly on the canvas.

Prototype User Flows: Connect generated screens into interactive flows to test navigation, hierarchy, and product ideas before development.

Text To 3D: Generate 3D assets from natural-language prompts for game concepts, prototypes, product visuals, and creative experiments.

Image To 3D: Convert reference images, sketches, and concept art into usable 3D model starting points for further refinement.

Text-to-Video: Generate cinematic video clips from natural-language prompts with control over scenes, motion, and composition.

Image-to-Video: Animate reference images into video and direct shots using start frames and visual references.

Generate Creative Assets: Create concept art, product visuals, illustrations, campaign assets, and other production-ready imagery from prompts and references.

Train Personal Models: Train personal AI models to create more consistent characters, products, styles, or visual identities across generations.

Clean ecommerce product photos: Remove backgrounds from product images for marketplaces, catalogs, stores, and product pages.

Create profile images: Turn portraits into clean professional headshots or transparent cutouts for profiles and marketing.

AI Website Creation: Generate editable website pages, sections, copy, and visuals from a prompt or brief.

Website Refinement: Ask Framer AI to review existing pages and suggest fixes for layout, copy, SEO, and accessibility issues.

Create Ad Creative: Generate image, video, voice, and music assets for product campaigns without switching between multiple generative tools.

Test Creative Variants: Produce campaign concepts and visual variations to compare messaging, formats, and creative directions.

Generate Visuals: Create images, portraits, concepts, and campaign assets with AI.

Create Social Content: Produce visual variations for social posts and campaigns.

Generative Media APIs: Add image, video, audio, editing, and other generative media capabilities to products through hosted APIs.

Creative AI Pipelines: Automate media generation for marketing, ecommerce, social content, design, and creative applications.