My 7 Best AI Tools for UI Design

AI tools for UI design are everywhere right now, and they’ve truly become a game-changer for designers. What once required hours of meticulous work can now be accelerated with the right AI tools.

Nevertheless, the challenge is figuring out which ones actually help you design better, faster, and with less rework. That's why I've tested a dozen tools and put this list together.

Below, I’ll walk you through my 7 best AI tools for UI design, focusing on what they’re genuinely good at, where they fall short, and who they’re best for.

Best AI tools for UI design

Here are my top AI UI design tool picks, organized by user type and use case:

• Best overall: UX Pilot

• Best for Figma users & design systems: Figma AI

• Best for website-focused design teams: Relume AI

• Best for sketch-to-screen drafts: Google Stitch

• Best for responsive web UI + deployment workflows: Framer AI

Look, I'll be honest. There are approximately one million AI design tools out there right now, and new ones seem to pop up every time I refresh my Reddit feed. I haven't tested every AI design tool out there since that'd be a full-time job at this point.

But I've put serious hours into the ones that frequently show up in designer discussions.

These picks come from real project work, not just signing up for demos and poking around for five minutes. I've also leaned on feedback from designer friends, former colleagues, and a few brutally honest Slack channels where people aren't shy about calling out tools that suck.

If something made this list, it's because it works in certain use cases and doesn't just look good in a Product Hunt launch video.

Now let's dig into what makes each one worth your time.

1. UX Pilot AI UI Generator

I put UX Pilot's UI generator at the top of my list because it’s one of the most capable AI tools right now for turning your UI ideas into actual screen designs you can iterate on and export.

And because UX Pilot’s AI model is trained and continuously updated specifically for UX and UI design, its results are often finer. You get more usable screens from the first generation compared to other tools.

If your focus is on usable UI output, not just sketches or rough concepts, this is the one you need.

Let's take a look at the features that make UX Pilot a worthwhile investment for UI design:

• Instant UI generation from prompts: Describe the interface you want and get polished UI screens in seconds for both mobile and desktop.

• Chat-based editing: You can talk to your design to tweak components or regenerate entire screens using natural language.

• Image-based UI generation: Beyond text, its AI models also understand reference images and design inspiration to derive color palettes and style direction, helping it match UI aesthetics more closely to what you want.

For example, I used screenshots from the Headspace app for design inspiration.

And here are 3 screens I generated using UX Pilot's UI designer with a minimal prompt. You could spend more time to personalize these designs.

• Pixel-perfect, theme-aware outputs: Generated UIs have clean layouts and can be adapted to dark/light modes and brand styles.

• Integrated with Figma: Once the UI is generated, you can export it to Figma or use UX Pilot's Figma plugin to continue refining within your existing design stack.

UX Pilot's paid plans start from $12/month.

But to be honest, the free plan already gives you enough runway to see if the tool fits your workflow before committing. Credits roll over between billing cycles, so you're not losing unused ones at the end of each month.

2. Figma AI 

If you already design in Figma, Figma AI feels like a natural extension of your workflow rather than a separate tool. It’s built directly into the platform, so you can use AI without leaving your design files or breaking momentum.

It’s mainly focused on speeding up early UI work and cleaning up design systems at scale. You can:

• Use Figma Make to generate interactive UI prototypes from text prompts, helping you explore layouts, flows, and interactions

• Generate images and remove backgrounds inside Figma

• Automatically rename layers based on context, keeping large UI files organized and making design systems easier to maintain and hand off

• Generate, rewrite, or shorten UI copy inside designs

This works best if your team already lives in Figma and needs to move fast during ideation, iteration, or design system maintenance. It’s especially useful for collaborative teams where file hygiene and consistency matter as much as visual output.

But from my observations, since it's still a beta feature, much of Figma’s AI output feels optimized for demos rather than real design work.

The results are often generic, don’t map cleanly to existing design systems, and require significant manual rebuilding to be usable. This seems to be a common issue among my fellow designers.

Figma AI is included in Figma’s plans, with limited access on the free tier and fuller capabilities starting on the Professional plan (around $16 per editor per month).

3. Relume AI

Relume AI is a web-focused design accelerator that helps you go from idea to structured website design in minutes.

Using it is simple. You describe what you need, and the tool generates a complete sitemap, wireframes, and a style system you can export to your favorite tools.

For website UI design, Relume can help you:

• Generate page-level UI layouts for common website screens like homepages, pricing, features, and contact pages

• Use its large component library (buttons, navs, sections, cards, forms) designed specifically for modern web interfaces

• Work directly in Figma, with components mapped to real, reusable design elements

• Design with Webflow-ready UI components, reducing friction between design and build

This makes Relume AI a strong fit for web UI designers, agencies, and product teams who design marketing sites, SaaS pages, or content-heavy websites.

The main drawback, however, is that it only works for website or landing page design, not web or mobile applications.

Even if you give it a prompt to generate a web app dashboard, it'll just return a website homepage.

Relume offers a free version with a basic AI sitemap and wireframing. But you'll need to upgrade (starting around $26/month) to unlock full automation and unlimited prompts for UI design.

4. Google Stitch

Google Stitch is Google Labs' experimental answer to AI-powered UI generation, launched at Google I/O 2025. The tool uses Gemini 2.5 Pro's multimodal capabilities to convert text prompts or uploaded images into UI designs and frontend code.

Here's what Google Stitch brings to the table:

• Prompt-to-UI generation: Describe your interface in plain language and get mobile or web screens in minutes. The tool processes your description and outputs complete layouts with components already placed.

• Dual AI modes: Choose Standard mode (up to 350 screens monthly) for quick generation, or Experimental mode (50 screens monthly) for higher-quality outputs using Gemini 3 Pro.

• Design iteration via a chat-based interface: Generate multiple layout variants to explore different visual directions without starting from scratch each time.

• Figma integration: Export designs directly to Figma with editable layers, though this feature isn't available in Experimental mode.

I find it most useful for early-stage concept validation or helping non-designers communicate UI ideas to their team. For polished, production-ready designs, you'll need more robust tools.

Google Stitch is currently free through Google Labs with no paid tier yet.

5. Adobe Firefly

Adobe Firefly is Adobe's creative AI platform that's becoming increasingly valuable for UI designers who need high-quality visual assets during the design process.

While it's not a dedicated UI design tool like UX Pilot or Figma AI, I've found it exceptionally useful for generating creative elements.

Its outstanding capabilities include:

• Visual asset generation: Generate custom icon sets, patterns, and textures based on descriptive prompts or sketches. This is perfect when you need unique visual elements that match your specific design aesthetic rather than generic stock graphics.

• Product mockup creation: Use Generative Fill to quickly place UI designs into realistic device mockups and environments.

• Creative Cloud integration: Access Firefly's features directly inside Photoshop, Illustrator, and Adobe Express without switching tools. The workflow feels natural if you're already in the Adobe ecosystem.

• Commercially safe outputs: Firefly models are trained on licensed and public-domain content, making outputs safer for professional and client work.

Pricing starts at $9.99/month for the Standard plan with 2,000 generative credits, or $29.99/month for Pro with 7,000 credits. If you're already paying for Creative Cloud Pro, you get 4,000 credits included monthly.

6. Framer AI 

Framer AI is an AI-augmented web UI and design platform that helps you generate responsive layouts, interactive prototypes, and live sites.

Unlike other AI tools that focus on producing static screens, Framer lets you design, refine, and publish responsive web interfaces in one place.

In practice, it only works best for websites.

I've tested two prompts, one for a web application and the other for a landing page. And as you can see, while he dashboard result was oddly structured with strange spacing, the landing page turned out pretty decent.

So, with Framer AI, you can:

• Use AI Wireframer to skip blank pages and generate an initial responsive layout based on text prompts.

• Customize designs with drag-and-drop layout tools that feel familiar to UI designers and support responsive breakpoints.

• Add interactions and animations to prototypes without coding.

• Publish your site directly with built-in hosting, SEO, and performance optimizations.

In terms of cost, Framer offers a free plan for basic experimentation. Paid plans start at $10/month (Mini) for simple sites, $20/month (Basic) for custom domains, and $30/month (Pro) for CMS access, advanced publishing, and higher traffic limits.

7. Looka

Looka earns a spot on this list because it helps you quickly lock in UI visual direction, especially when you’re launching a product and don’t yet have a brand system in place.

Here's what Looka does well:

• AI-generated brand kits: Logo, color palette, typography, and brand rules generated from a few inputs.

• UI-ready visual direction: Colors, fonts, and styling choices that translate cleanly into product interfaces, onboarding flows, and dashboards.

• Consistent assets at scale: Hundreds of pre-styled templates that help keep your product UI and marketing visuals aligned.

Nevertheless, because it focuses on brand identity rather than detailed UI screens, some of my fellow designers find its designs feel a bit generic or limited if you need a very unique visual language.

For pricing, Looka offers both one-time purchases and annual subscriptions.

You can grab just a logo starting around $20–$65 one-time, depending on the file types you need (e.g., PNG, SVG, EPS, PDF).

If you want ongoing brand assets, you can subscribe to a Brand Kit for about $96/year or a Brand Kit + Web plan for about $129/year.

Still not sure which UI design tool to choose?

If you're new to AI UI design, start with UX Pilot. It's the most complete, intuitive option and shows you how AI can speed up your entire design workflow from idea to interface.

Already embedded in a specific workflow? Figma AI works best if you live in Figma, Relume AI if you focus on websites, and Framer AI if you need to go from design to live deployment.

For early concept work and rapid drafts, Google Stitch turns prompts into screens fast. And if you need high-quality visual assets and brand elements, Adobe Firefly handles that side of things better than the rest.

My advice is to pick one based on what you're building right now, test the free version, and actually use it on a real project. You'll know pretty quickly if it fits your workflow or if you're just fighting with it.