AI design tools & resources

A curated library of AI design tools, UX pattern libraries, and references.

21dev
AI-powered front-end code generator focused on building UI components quickly from prompts.
Vibe Coding Tools
Aesthetics of AI
Branding study of 23 AI companies from a Berlin studio, mapping 14 visual identity trends and five brand archetypes. Full report available as a free PDF.
Inspiration
AI Interaction Atlas
Open-source reference for AI UX with 100+ patterns, visual examples, and reusable components.
Design Systems & Guidelines
AI Patterns
Community-sourced library of real-world AI UX patterns, annotated with context on when and why each pattern works.
Design Systems & Guidelines
aiverse
Library of 200+ AI UX interactions curated from leading AI products, with pattern cheatsheets, case studies, and a weekly newsletter. Aimed at product teams shipping AI features.
Design Systems & Guidelines
Anima
Design-to-code agent that turns Figma files, live URLs, or prompts into production-ready React or HTML. Supports design system imports and DESIGN.md files; powers codegen inside Bolt and Replit.
Vibe Coding Tools
Anthropic Academy
Anthropic's free learning hub for building with Claude — courses and guides on prompting, the API, agents, and the Model Context Protocol, from beginner to advanced.
Courses & Learning
Aura
AI landing page and website builder that generates from a text prompt or a screenshot. Outputs real HTML, Tailwind, and vanilla JS, with export to Figma and a large template library.
Vibe Coding Tools
Bolt
Browser-based AI agent by StackBlitz that writes, runs, and deploys full-stack apps directly in the browser — no local setup needed.
Vibe Coding Tools
Brik
Motion design platform bridging creative coding and AI generation. Build animations, 2D and 3D visuals, and text effects as reusable systems you can remix, export, and share.
Inspiration
Carbon for AI — IBM
IBM's design guidelines for building AI-powered products using the Carbon design system — patterns for chat, generation, and model transparency.
Design Systems & Guidelines
Dembrandt
Open-source CLI tool that extracts a complete design token set from any live website — colours, typography, spacing, and shadows as W3C-compliant output.
UI Design Resources
Design Extractor
Paste a URL to extract a DESIGN.md plus Tailwind v4 config and design tokens — colours, typography, spacing, and CSS variables for Claude, Cursor, and Stitch.
UI Design Resources
Design Prompt Library
Browsable library of design-specific prompts for use with AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude.
UI Design Resources
Design Prompts
Curated prompts and templates specifically crafted for designers working with generative AI tools.
UI Design Resources
DesignMD
Paste a URL and get a DESIGN.md spec: colour tokens, type scale, spacing, breakpoints, and interaction states. Measured live from the DOM and CSSOM rather than inferred from screenshots. CLI available.
UI Design Resources
Figma Make
AI-driven prompt-to-code tool that turns Figma designs into functional prototypes, web apps, and interactive UI.
Vibe Coding Tools
Figr
Product-aware AI design agent for teams. Ingests your live product, analytics, and design system to generate flows, screens, and UX reviews in context.
Vibe Coding Tools
Get Design MD
Free collection of DESIGN.md files extracted from real sites — Stripe, Vercel, Linear, Uber and dozens more. Drop one into a project so your coding agent follows a specific visual language.
UI Design Resources
GitLab Pajamas — AI-Human Interaction
GitLab's design system guidance for AI features, structured around four dimensions: interaction type, agent source, mode, and task. Includes naming conventions and CTA rules.
Design Systems & Guidelines
Google Labs
Google's home for early AI experiments — hands-on access to projects like Flow, Whisk, and NotebookLM, and demos exploring where generative AI is heading.
Inspiration
Google — Learn AI Skills
Google's hub of free AI courses and certifications — practical training on generative AI, prompting, and applying AI tools across everyday work.
Courses & Learning
Google — People + AI Guidebook
In-depth UX and ML guidance, principles, patterns, and workshops for creating helpful AI products.
Design Systems & Guidelines
GSAP
Industry-standard JavaScript animation library used on 11M+ sites. Animates CSS, SVG, canvas, WebGL, and React. Now fully free including all plugins.
Motion
Hostinger Horizons
AI website builder by Hostinger — generates and deploys full websites from a text description.
Vibe Coding Tools
LiveKit Agents UI
Open-source React component library for voice and multimodal agent interfaces. Includes five audio visualiser styles, control bars, and chat transcripts, built on shadcn/ui.
UI Design Resources
Lovable
AI tool that builds full-stack web applications (React, Supabase) from plain-language prompts — deployable prototypes for non-coders.
Vibe Coding Tools
MagicPatterns
AI that converts prompts into high-fidelity UI mockups and component trees with HTML/CSS and React export.
Vibe Coding Tools
Microsoft HAX Toolkit
18 research-backed guidelines for human-AI interaction across the interaction lifecycle, plus a design pattern library, workbook, and playbook. Synthesised from 20+ years of HCI research.
Design Systems & Guidelines
Mode
Turns your product's codebase into editable canvas frames. Design against real components, tokens, and live data, then hand off changes as a pull request instead of a mockup.
Vibe Coding Tools
OpenAI Academy
OpenAI's free learning platform — courses, workshops, and hands-on resources on using and building with AI, from foundational literacy to advanced developer skills.
Courses & Learning
OpenUI
Open standard for generative UI. Lets LLMs produce structured, streamable UI components with up to 67% fewer tokens than JSON. Includes a React SDK and playground.
Vibe Coding Tools
Particles by Casberry
Browser-based WebGL platform for generating and publishing 3D particle swarms with custom AI logic. 20,000+ particles driven by user-defined physics algorithms.
Motion
Physics Notebook
Open-source interactive library of browser-based physics simulations with real-time visualisations. Covers mechanics, waves, electromagnetism, and quantum.
Motion
ServiceNow Horizon — Designing for AI
ServiceNow's framework for human-centred AI design, built around transparency, traceability, and user control. Sits alongside their conversation design guidelines and Now Assist components.
Design Systems & Guidelines
Shadcn Studio
Copy-paste shadcn components, blocks, and templates paired with an AI theme generator. Includes a Figma-to-code plugin, MCP server, and one-click handoff to v0, Bolt, or Lovable.
UI Design Resources
shadcn/ui
Open-source library of accessible, copy-paste React components built on Tailwind. You own the code rather than installing a package — the de facto base layer for AI-generated UI.
UI Design Resources
Shape of AI
Pattern library of AI UX interactions — covers generation, error states, feedback loops, and transparency patterns used across leading AI products.
Design Systems & Guidelines
Shopify Design
Shopify's design team site, covering their design principles, craft, and the work behind Polaris — the design system for the Shopify admin.
Inspiration
Subframe
AI-powered UI builder that generates production-ready React components with a visual editor — bridges the gap between design and code.
Vibe Coding Tools
Tool UI
Open-source component gallery for AI interfaces — charts, code blocks, diffs, data tables, and social post artifacts. Each component ships with a schema and example data. MIT licensed.
UI Design Resources
tweakcn
Open-source visual theme editor for shadcn/ui. Adjust colours, typography, and radii with live preview, then export Tailwind CSS variables. Built to stop every shadcn site looking identical.
UI Design Resources
Twilio Paste
Twilio's design system including components, tokens, and guidelines built for accessible, inclusive product experiences.
Design Systems & Guidelines
UX Pilot
AI design assistant that generates wireframes, user flows, and UI screens from plain-text descriptions — works standalone and as a Figma plugin.
Vibe Coding Tools
v0
Vercel's AI UI generator that outputs production-ready React + Tailwind components from prompts.
Vibe Coding Tools
Vibe Design Buzzwords
List of buzzword prompts for generating trendy, expressive UI aesthetics — useful for rapid mood-boarding and style exploration.
UI Design Resources