AI Tools

Collaboration and Productivity Tools

1. Sembly AI

This tool generates meeting notes with a summary and the topics discussed during a meeting. It supports over 40 languages (many of which are in Beta) and integrates with common task management and collaboration tools such as Slack and Trello. You can also prompt the tool to search for past meetings, filter out discussion points based on specific criteria (such as challenges or opportunities), summarize the meeting in a few lines or help you write an email based on the discussions.

2. Otter.ai

Offers live meeting transcriptions and generates summaries. It integrates with popular meeting apps to work as soon as a meeting starts, without manual intervention.

3. Reclaim AI

A scheduling automation app that finds the best time for your meetings, tasks, habits and breaks. You can set time aside for recurrent meetings, focus time or personal times. The application automatically reschedules tasks in case there are conflicts with meetings and helps you manage your time effectively.

4. Ellie:

An email writing assistant. It frees up time and mental bandwidth by drafting intelligent emails. Powered by GPT, the tool learns from your writing style and crafts replies as if they were written by you.

5. Taskade

A multi-purpose productivity AI tool that offers features such as workflow automation, visualization and chat. From a designer’s perspective, it offers pre-built checklists for common design tasks.

Research Assistants

1. Hotjar AI

can help you draft survey questions.

2. UserTesting AI

can analyze your audience data and help recruit participants for your research efforts.

3. Pansophic

can learn about your product and research goals to conduct a qualitative interview with your users.

Data Processing and Analysis

1. Miro’s AI

features include clustering sticky notes to identify patterns.

2. UX Brain

is a dedicated research “sidekick” that transcribes audio and video data and summarizes findings.

Problem Solving (not applicable for now in an standard UX workflow)

1. IBM Watson

Offers AI-driven solutions for problem-solving in healthcare, customer support, and business analytics, among other areas.

2. Google Cloud AI

Has a variety of AI tools for natural language processing, computer vision, and machine learning, which can be applied to various problem-solving tasks.

Ideation / Brainstorming Partner

1. Whimsical

2. Slatebox

3. HyperWrite

Provide this tool with the problem and this tool generates a range of solutions and ideas based on it.

4. ValueProp.Dev

An AI-powered tool that creates a Value Proposition Canvas for your company based on its description.

5. Stormz

An AI platform that allows you to create various brainstorming activities for effective idea generation and problem-solving.

6. The AI Toolbox for Innovators

For this tool, you input the target audience and the problem to generate five different “How Might We’s”.

Logo and Icon Inspiration

Most icon generators focus on logos and app icons. You can use the output of these tools as-is, or use them as a starting point for your work. Sometimes you might find that standard icon libraries do not have an icon that represents an abstract concept that’s unique to your product. In such cases, you can experiment with these tools to create such icons.

1. IconlabAI

This is a paid tool that helps you create icons in png. However, they look more like avatars and illustration than icons.

2. CandyIcons

Candyicons offers stunning app icons for your products.
Our AI-generated icons are available in 2 ways: Browse our library of available icons, or Create your own icons in many styles. For now, they don't have SVG format available.

3. Diffusion Logo Studio

They promise to deliver a high quality logo, the good thing is that it takes into account the company principles and branding.

We are working on the next version of Diffusion Logo Studio. We disabled the current version as it didn't met our high standards.

Thanks for your patience and trust in our service.

Stock Image Search

When creative commons or royalty-free images become too stock-ish and don’t provide exactly what you’re looking for, AI image generators can help you create custom images. Whether it is marketing illustrations or photorealistic faces for your personas, tools such as Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and DALL·E 2 can generate these from text inputs/prompts.

Color Palette Inspiration

AI tools such as Khroma, ColorMagic and Chroma AI can help you come up with a visual language based on your tastes, specific keywords or even random phrases.

Wireframes

1. Visily

Visily is a wireframe tool that swiftly transforms screenshots, templates, or text prompts into editable wireframes and prototypes, powered by AI.

2. WireGen

WireGen uses chat GPT AI to generate wireframe designs quickly and easily.
Just input the description of the design you want to create, and the plugin will generate wireframes for you in minutes. This plugin saves time and effort in the wireframing process and is perfect for designers who want to focus on the creative aspects of their work. let the AI do the heavy lifting.

3. Typper

This is a virtual design assistant that offers design suggestions to improve the layout and accessibility of your interfaces. It also generates text, icons and images based on text prompts.

Writing Assistants and Copywriters

1. Writesonic

2. Jasper

3. Copy.ai

Marketing and Presentation Tools

1. Tome

2. Beautiful.ai

3. Slides AI

Exercise

The goal of this exercise is to practice and demonstrate your understanding of AI tools in UX research:

• Choose a problem domain that you have some knowledge of.
• Identify a fairly narrow question in that domain.
• Ask the question of one or more AI tools.
• Use critical thinking to evaluate the answers (this is where your existing domain knowledge comes in).
• Use other sources to fact-check the AI answers. A web search is usually a good place to start.
• Ask the problem statement to ChatGPT or others, if you find it too generic, iterate to learn how to give AI some context.
• Ask the AI to give you 4-5 How might we's
• Turn them into User stories
• Refine the User stories until you find them good enough
• With User Stories, use AI tools for Wireframing to explore different flows on Figma
• Analyse your results