Good from Afar, But Far from Good: AI Prototyping in Real Design Contexts

AI prototyping tools follow general directions but lack the judgment and nuance of an experienced designer.


This content originally appeared on NN/g latest articles and announcements and was authored by Huei-Hsin Wang, Megan Brown

Summary: AI prototyping tools follow general directions but lack the judgment and nuance of an experienced designer.



Over the past few months, the UX design field has been flooded with AI-powered prototyping tools that generate interfaces instantly from natural-language prompts. Despite the massive marketing hype, our evaluation with real design scenarios revealed that these tools can follow instructions to achieve a general goal , but they lack the sophistication to weigh design tradeoffs and produce thoughtful, high-quality designs without extensive guidance from humans.

About the Evaluation

To understand whether AI prototyping tools can craft thoughtful, context-aware designs comparable to those created by human designers, we conducted an evaluation using an actual project — redesigning the profile page for individuals registered for NN/G’s live online training . This evaluation focused on three categories of AI tools:

To mirror different stages of the real-world design process, we wrote prompts providing various levels of context:



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This content originally appeared on NN/g latest articles and announcements and was authored by Huei-Hsin Wang, Megan Brown


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