AI and design
Designing with AI assistants, agents and MCP, without losing your look.
200 guides · 11 topics
AI and designAI design tools: what they're good at, and where they fall short
6 min read
AI can give you fifty options before lunch. Whether any of them looks like your brand is another question. Here is how to tell the tools apart and judge them fairly.
AI and designAI brand identity: what AI can make, and what needs you
5 min read
AI will happily give you a logo, a palette and a tagline before your coffee cools. Whether they add up to a brand is the part that is still your job.
AI and designAI gradient generator prompts: how to describe a gradient
5 min read
Ask for "a modern gradient" and you'll get the one everyone gets. Describe the ground, the light and the material, and you'll get one that looks like someone chose it.
AI and designWhat is MCP? Letting your AI assistant use real tools
6 min read
An AI assistant that can only talk is limited to advice. One that can use your tools can actually do the work. MCP is the standard that connects the two.
AI and designClaude design: making on-brand visuals with Gradiently
5 min read
Claude is good at understanding what you mean. Connected to Gradiently, it can also make it: real, editable designs in your brand, waiting in the Studio for your final touch.
AI and designChatGPT design: making on-brand designs from ChatGPT
6 min read
ChatGPT can draw you a picture. Connected to a design tool, it can do something more useful: make editable, on-brand designs you can open, fix and post.
AI and designAI art originality: how to avoid lookalike designs
5 min read
Ask a thousand people's AI tools for a modern gradient and you get roughly the same one a thousand times. Here is why, and what to do about it.
AI and designWill AI replace designers? What changes, and what doesn't
5 min read
The honest answer is neither yes nor no. AI is changing which parts of design take time, and that changes what a designer is paid to be good at.
AI and designAI social media post generator: a brief-to-batch workflow
5 min read
AI can make a week of posts in the time it used to take to make one. Whether they look like your brand depends almost entirely on what you set up before you ask.
AI and designAn AI design workflow for a one-person brand
5 min read
You are the founder, the marketer and the designer. Here is a weekly routine that uses AI for the heavy lifting and keeps your judgement where it counts.
AI and designSocial media copywriting for visuals: short lines that land
5 min read
The words on a post get about as long as a glance. Here is how to write lines that survive a thumbnail, with and without AI's help.
AI and designAI agents for marketing: a practical introduction
5 min read
A chatbot answers. An agent gets things done: it plans, uses tools and checks its own work. Here is where that helps a marketing team, and where it needs a leash.
AI and designAI background generator: what to look for in the results
5 min read
A generated background can look perfect in a preview and fall apart on a banner. Here are the checks that separate a usable background from a pretty thumbnail.
AI and designBrand guidelines for AI: rules your assistant can follow
5 min read
A style guide written for people relies on taste and context. An AI has neither unless you write them down. Here is how to write rules a model actually follows.