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AI for designers

Use AI to explore and test design directions, and keep the judgement about what is good for yourself.

A short path: AI basics and prompting first, then how AI changes design work, then image generation, with a project that keeps you in charge.

beginner9 stepsabout 7 h 27 min of listed material

Foundations

What you need to know before you build.

  1. Infrato courseAI for Everyone25 min

    AI basics before you pick tools.

  2. Infrato coursePrompting Fundamentals45 min

    Briefing an AI tool clearly, which matters as much for images as for text.

  3. Infrato courseFrame the Task: Turn Work into an AI Workflow55 min

    Break a design job into steps, say what good looks like, and keep the first version simple.

  4. Google · Course
    Google AI Essentials
    Price not listed

    Google’s beginner course on AI basics and prompting.

Build

Make the thing.

  1. Infrato courseAI for Designers: Explore, Then Decide56 min

    Brief an image tool, critique what comes back, and keep the decisions and rights with you.

  2. Microsoft · Course
    Manage and design with AI
    beginnerFree211 min

    How AI changes design and project work.

  3. Microsoft · Course
    Generative AI for Beginners
    beginnerFree

    Includes image generation among its lessons.

Extend

Check it, harden it, go further.

  1. Hugging Face · Course
    Diffusion Course
    Price not listed

    How image-generation models work, so you know what to expect from them.

  2. Infrato courseUse AI Safely at Work: Privacy and Data55 min

    What client and brand material is safe to put into an image or text tool, and what is not.

Tools to try

Products from each vendor’s own site, listed by name and link only. We have not tested them, they are not endorsements, and we are not affiliated with the vendors. Prices and features change, so check the vendor’s page.

  • Figma

    Figma AI

    AI features in Figma.

  • Framer

    Framer

    An AI canvas agent for building sites.

There are more by what you use them for: AI tools worth learning.

Agents and MCP servers for this role

An MCP server runs code with your accounts and can act in them. Read what each one can reach, and which credentials it asks for, before you connect it. These are picked from our directories by hand, not ranked, and are not endorsements.

MCP servers

  • cursor-talk-to-figma-mcp

    Lets an AI agent work with Figma designs.

    Reaches: figma. No credentials listed.

  • penpot-mcp

    A Penpot server.

    Reaches: penpot. Asks for: PENPOT_PASSWORD.

  • design-systems-mcp

    A design systems assistant for components and tokens.

    Reaches: openai, supabase. Asks for: OPENAI_API_KEY, SUPABASE_ANON_KEY, SUPABASE_SERVICE_KEY.

  • mcp-image

    AI image generation and editing.

    Reaches: gemini, openai. Asks for: GEMINI_API_KEY.

Agent skills

Your project

Explore a brief with AI, then decide

Take a design brief. Generate several concept directions with an AI tool and pick one. Write why you chose it, what you changed by hand, and what the tool got wrong or could not do.

The order and the notes are Infrato's own picks. The resources are made by their providers, open at their own sites, and can change; prices, levels and durations are the provider's. Infrato is not affiliated with the providers listed.