In the last few years we have seen exponential advancement in artificial intelligence (AI), where web designers now have a range of innovative tools at their fingertips. This further emphasises the need to stay ahead of the curve and elevate your designs to the next level by utilising the right AI tools in the right way. In this blog we have listed the top five best AI tools for web design in 2023, that will help you create cutting edge websites in no time.
1. AI Design Assistants
Did you know that the most time consuming phases of design are the inspiration and implementation phases? Find out more on design thinking here.
With an AI powered design assistant you can get instant inspiration and relevant suggestions to help you automate the most tedious tasks.
An AI assistant can help you by:
- Content creation including blog posst, social content and script generation
- Recommending layout ideas
- Generating colour schemes
- Suggesting font combinations
- Automating time consuming tasks
The most helpful feature of integrating this AI tool with your daily workflow is the time it can help you save, specifically in helping you determine the best plan for your project. Even once it has assisted you in mapping this out, it can continue to help by carrying out tedious tasks while you get on with the more creative aspects of your project.
AI powered colour palette generators
Choosing the right colour palette for a project may seem easy but can in fact it can be a minefield if you do not have a solid understanding of colour theory. With AI colour generators you can not only generate a tone of different colour schemes, you can also get colour scheme suggestions for different website types. This is hugely useful in helping you create a range of complimentary colour combinations that you know are guaranteed to look good.
Overall the advantages of smart color generators are in the millions. For example, they can help you create more accessible designs that consider colour blind users, helping you create inclusive digital experiences that still look great! It doesn’t stop there, AI colour generators can also use their machine learning algorithms to find and extract dominant or complementary colours from images. Therefore, they can help you create a colour palette that will perfectly compliment the images you plan to use as well as the business type or feel you are after.
Our top AI color generator picks
One of our top picks is Colormind which generates a range of colour schemes for websites and design templates. You can also upload an image and it will generate a plethora of colour palettes for you. What we like best is that it gives you helpful tips on how to apply given palletes in the right way.
Another of our picks is Khroma. This AI colour generator asks you to pick 50 colours to start with and creates a personalised dashboard with a range of font types, posters and images for you to choose from. We know 50 is quite a lot but it will be worth the effort in the end. The unique part of this generator is that it uses a personalised algorythm to produce colour palettes which it knows you are going to like.
3. AI responsive design validators
We are now in the era where most of us are using our phones more than any other device. This means that mobile friendly websites are massively important – to the point where some experts design the mobile layout of a website before any other device type!
Though, it’s important to mention it can be tricky when you also have to consider fast loading times and how a responsive or even mobile specific version of your website might stagnate load times and send your bounce rate skyrocketing.
AI Responsive validators can fix all of this for you.
Here is how:
- compress and resized images without compromising image quality
- detect and report potential layout issues
- provide suggestions for improving site responsivity
4. AI powered photo editor and enhancer
AI photo editors and enhancers can help designers create highly engaging imagery that enhances and showcases a brand effortlessly. This allows for a new level of quality and precision in website design. They can also be used to enhance images used in website templates in order to help the design stand out or look more cohesive.
What AI photo editors can do:
- Enhance, sharpen and add contrast to photos
- Change colour composition and colour correct photos
- Remove background objects
- Change image composition
5. AI driven natural language processors
The ability to create good quality, brief specific content is an essential skill for any web professional. This can be very time consuming though and rushing this process can often result in sloppy copy that doesn’t get the key messages across. By using a language processor you can create a content outline to help keep a plan of what you are writing. You can also instruct the processor (NLP) to analyse your copy and give you an improved or more succinct version. Furthermore, web pros should consider SEO when creating content as this will ensure the website ranks well on SERP’s. For more on what SERP’s are, read our recent article on SEO Optimization for Beginners
Web designers can use NLPs as a tool to create better copy, more efficiently. An important tip is to remember not to use an NLP to create content that you post on a website straight off, make sure you personalise your content is crucial. Also be careful with plagiarism as some NLP’s may have very similar text to other websites which will not be good for a website and it’s discoverability.
Our top NLP picks
Our first favourite would be Chat GPT due to it’s ease of use and accessibility. Though, there are other NLP’s that can be used for more specific content creation.
For example Copy.ai is great for short form as it generates content in no time.
Another is Frase which is an SEO research tool with a built in NLP, it can optimise a specific amount of articles depending on you subscription and also has a WordPress plugin and integration options. You can currently get a 5 day free trial.
Conclusion
In conclusion, as the web design world continues to progress it is important to understand how to use AI tools to improve your workflow. We think the five AI-powered tools listed above are great tools that web designers can utilise to create better quality work much more efficiently.
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