Graphic design is quite a big deal – especially for the marketing industry now that most consumers prefer visuals to other types of content.

However, whether for an experienced designer or an amateur, creating designs can be overwhelming sometimes.

Today, graphic designers suffer from inspiration blocks or even find it difficult to draw up concepts for a design. And all these factors can drastically affect productivity.

But what if you could use ChatGPT to eliminate some of these problems?

With the rapid advancement in technology and the revolutionary introduction of artificially intelligent bots, you might be able to decrease your input time and effort while still producing the same or even better design results.

So, in this article, we will explore the concept of AI-assisted designs, what ChatGPT is, and how to use it for your next design project.

What is ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is an artificially intelligent chatbot that uses machine-learning processing language to interact and engage in human communications.

Developed by OpenAI, this tool was trained to receive prompts and create human-like responses in seconds.

ChatGPT technically filters millions of internet content and has access to an enormous amount of data that it uses to answer prompts.

Interestingly, this AI bot finds practical applications in various niches and is used by content creators, coders, marketers, and brand owners to create detailed content and briefs or generate answers.

While the accuracy of ChatGPT in providing the information is still questionable, at least most people are quite happy with its output. However, its database is limited to events before 2021.

But Can ChatGPT be Used to Generate Graphic Designs?

If we take the question by its literal meaning, the answer is NO. You can’t create or generate graphic designs outright with ChatGPT.

Although OpenAI released a new update that ensures you can interact with the tool using images, ChatGPT still can’t work as a graphic design generator.

However, while ChatGPT can’t create designs for you, it can play an assistive role while you do the creating. That’s the YES aspect of the question above.

For example, you could use this tool to guide and shape the pattern of your design, especially if you’re out of ideas or encounter a designer’s block.

Three Ways to Use ChatGPT in Your Next Graphic Designing Project

We’ve clarified that ChatGPT can’t generate graphic designs outright. But you can use it in your next design project to do the following:

1.    Generate design briefs

Design briefs typically outline your project goals, core details, value, messages to be passed, expectations, and patterns. It also tells you the design style, font, color, tone, and possible elements.

The problem with creating design briefs is that the process can sometimes be strenuous and time-consuming. But what if you could skip the journey and type a few prompts into the GPT?

Check out the images below:

We fed the tool this prompt, “Okay. I want to design a logo for my coffee business. Can you give me a design brief? Preferably in a table format.”

And the result is a table of all the core details needed to guide our design progress.

You can take it, more or less, as a design map that you can always use.

In the image, the brief ‌focused on the title, taglines, audience, style, colors, ‌inspirations to go by, and requirements.

Of course, this might be insufficient for more complex designs. So, you need to feed in more prompts like:

• Should I go for an iconic logo or a text-based logo?
• What do you think of a combination?
• Can you suggest more colors that suit the goal of this design?
• Who are my target audiences?
• The font looks too thick. Can we go with something lighter?

Now these prompts are streamlined to get more results from the tool.

You can ask your questions in different formats. Just ensure you structure the prompts well to get an accurate response to your answers.

2.    Analyze your designs

The latest feature of ChatGPT allows you to interact using images and not text only. ChatGPT will automatically analyze the design and give you a complete overview.

For now, you can upload your image to a link and provide the link to your tool.

This comes in handy because you can use it to review your designs and look for places that lag behind in communicating the right message.

You can also use it to sniff out errors, identify the different things to add or replace and finalize your designs.

Here is an example:

The images above depict the AI tool analyzing an image from the link we provided. You can see how it broke down the nitty-gritty details.

But you can do much more than that by requesting it to suggest possible areas of improvement, as shown below.

There’s more to analyzing design with GPT. You can now follow these steps to review your designs for edits before submitting them.

And hopefully, subsequent updates will allow direct uploading of images to the tool.

3.    Find design resources and tools

ChatGPT is like a brain center for hundreds of billions or trillions of data.

So, you can use it to locate helpful design resources for your next design project.

For example, you ask it to suggest a list of sites useful for finding inspiration, like Pinterest.

Additionally, you can use ChatGPT to sort out a list of tools that will assist your design journey.

If you ask it to give you some modern tools that you can use to design a logo, it will probably parse out Adobe Illustrator and Canva, among others.

Conclusion

So that’s it! And, of course, you should know there’s more to using ChatGPT.

With more and more updates coming in every day, there’s a chance this AI tool will be used for generating actual designs.

But for now, the best you can do with it is generate briefs, analyze your output, suggest resources or tools, and possibly create prompts that you can use for image-generating tools like Visme AI Image Generator.

Finally, keep these in mind: Briefs from ChatGPT are awesome, but don’t let your creativity be limited.

Also, don’t leave your final design decisions to a tool. Be more human with your outputs and capitalize on emotions to get the right balance for your designs