Boost UI Design Efficiency with AI: Practical Tips Using Instant AI

As AI technology advances, AI tools are increasingly integrated into every stage of design work, from research reports to generating visual assets with Midjourney, and even creating initial UI drafts based on analyzed design requirements.

In this article we share practical methods and tips for using AI to generate UI design drafts, helping you significantly improve both quality and efficiency.

Common AI design tools like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion can produce many visual elements for main, auxiliary, and promotional scenes, but they generate only images, which limits editing and reuse for UI design.

For faster UI design output, the "Instant AI" tool stands out because it supports text‑to‑editable UI drafts, includes vector layers and icons, allows secondary editing, and provides a clear layer structure.

Instant AI is now fully open; simply open the tool and start using it.

Typical UI design workflow

Receive product requirements, analyze them, find suitable references, and create initial drafts.

Two stages in this workflow can be accelerated with Instant AI: finding references and generating initial drafts.

1. Generate design references with Instant AI

Design scenario: The theme, type, and functionality of the interface are defined, but you need more inspiration for style and layout.

Applicable model: JS‑Inno model.

Prompt structure: Theme description + page type / main functionality.

Example: generate a home page for a rental app, a community page for a music app, or a doctor list page for an online medical app.

With the theme fixed, AI creatively designs page content and style, producing multiple modules (e.g., recommended listings, hot cities) and offering several layout options.

2. Generate design drafts with Instant AI

Design scenario: The required content and layout are clear, and you want to quickly produce multiple drafts for validation.

Applicable model: JS‑UIbotics model.

Prompt structure: Theme description + page type + main functions + layout + module contents.

Example: generate a live‑stream app home page containing a live list, recommended streams, hot streams, and a personal center.

After specifying required modules, AI returns several different layout drafts within about 30 seconds. Although the drafts may lack polish, their structure is clear enough to combine components for internal review.

3. General tips to improve generation quality

1️⃣ Include the “main content” in the prompt instead of only describing the desired effect. A detailed prompt yields more accurate and richer page elements.

2️⃣ Use positional words (top, bottom, left, right) rather than vague style adjectives; UI design focuses on functional layout, so specifying module positions improves accuracy.

3️⃣ Craft precise prompts to help AI understand the page type (home, onboarding, detail, login) and lock the creation scope.

4️⃣ When you need control over individual module styles and outputs, list elements such as header, navigation bar, footer, search box, input field, banner, main image, button, tab bar, tag bar, etc.

Although AI‑generated drafts still require designer refinement, they greatly aid early‑stage style and layout exploration, allowing rapid generation of multiple high‑fidelity mockups in 30–60 seconds, reducing trial‑and‑error costs.

Future improvements may include AI learning existing design systems to generate compliant pages and creating multiple related pages from a single theme.