AI for UX: Getting Started

On This Page:

• Disclaimer
• Why Use AI in UX Work?
• AI Is Safest for Experienced UX Professionals
• Recommended AI Tools
• How to Use AI
• Specific UX Tasks for AI
• What AI Can’t Do
• Do You Need to Know How AI Works?
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• Start Now, Start Small

Specific UX Tasks for AI

Here are some ideas from our respondents for specific UX work that AI can help with.

Design

• Generate ideas to inspire creativity (Doris Lin) 
• Create illustrations for personas and journey maps (Chris Callaghan and Elsa Ruiz)
• Plan out a workshop agenda (Doris Lin) 
• Produce text and images for use in prototypes to increase realism and relevancy instead of lorem ipsum (Matt Feilmeier, Doris Lin, and Elsa Ruiz)

Research

• Write user interview questions (Doris Lin)
• Sentiment analysis for initial theme finding (Lawrence Williams)
• Analyze user feedback: Identify the most common pain points mentioned in the following user feedback: [feedback]. (Vinay Maurya)
• Rewrite research reports to be clearer for your audience, who are often not UX specialists (Mohammad Fejlat)

Content

• Write text efficiently, such as for emails, concepts, or posts, based on outlines you provide (Vicky Pirker)
• Improve UX writing: Make the following text more concise and user-friendly: [text] (Vinay Maurya)

For this very article, we used AI for two simple tasks that feature frequently in most UX work: (a) to structure and pull out themes from the comments Kate received, and (b) to quickly generate illustrations.