<ul><li>Despite improvements in narrow-scope AI design tools, most design-specific AI still falls short in replicating human designers’ output quality.</li><li>This update is a follow-up to the 2024 article 'AI UX-Design Tools Are Not Ready for Primetime: Status Update'. In April 2024, AI-powered design tools were deemed not useful to designers.</li><li>As of May 2025, while there have been some improvements in the usefulness of AI-powered design tools, they are still far from meeting the expectations set for them. Design professionals are not at risk of being replaced by AI yet.</li><li>The most significant advancements in design-specific AI tools are found in narrow-scope genAI, which specialize in one or a few specific tasks, unlike broad AIs such as ChatGPT which handle a wide range of inputs and outputs.</li></ul>

AI Design Tools Are Marginally Better: Status Update

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