Meet Visily’s new power couple…
We’re starting the new year with a bang by releasing two big new features: Design Instructions and Deep Design!
Fresh out of beta, these features both provide tremendous value when used on their own, but used together? The experience feels transformative: imagine having a personal design assistant who consistently understands key details about your project, incorporating them into creative, high-quality designs, while still giving you full editing control on a easy-to-use drag-and-drop canvas. That’s what it’s like when you combine Design Instructions and Deep Design Mode.
Let’s dive in to what exactly makes this pairing of features so powerful…
The value in 3 words: Consistency, creativity, & control
For all the benefits of generative AI, there are a few notable areas of frustration when using AI products to create UI designs, namely design consistency, creativity, and control. Here’s how these new features help address these critical issues:
1. Consistency
If you’ve used AI to generate iterations of design work, you’ve likely encountered instances when the AI seemingly forgot everything you told it in previous generations. With Design Instructions, you simply specify what you want the AI to consistently remember when generating new screens. This could include details such as:
- Specific logo(s) to always use, along with instructions on logo placement
- Themes and aesthetic details (e.g. “use dark mode”)
- Purpose and goals of the UI being created (e.g. “a luxury home decor e-commerce app)
You can save, edit, and reuse design instructions at any time, so you can easily switch contexts without extensive prompting just to remind the AI the basics of what you want it to do.
2. Creativity
Deep Design mode—available now for Pro, Business, and Enterprise users—offers richer, more aesthetic design outputs. Because Deep Design consumes more AI credits per run, it can be toggled on and off, so you can determine the contexts where you apply the deeper thinking and design abilities available in Deep Design mode.
While Deep Design can make designs that are more polished than standard design mode, its superpower lies in its creativity. For example, my daughter loves the Minecraft movie (lava chicken, anyone?), so I decided to create a little experiment: I asked our AI to generate a few different screens for an HR app in the style of Minecraft, first in standard design mode, followed by Deep Design mode. While the standard mode outputs weren’t *bad—*they used some Roboto-style typeface and playful color palettes—Deep Design mode’s creativity was clearly superior, from the fonts & color palettes, to the Minecraft-inspired copy used.
I loved the Minecraft styling so much, that I turned it into Design Instructions that I could use to quickly generate new app UI and transform existing ones into Minecraft style UI.
Even if your designs don’t call for something quite as niche as Minecraft-inspired HR app UI, Deep Design can take pretty much any idea and generate designs with more polish and precision than standard mode. (examples)
3. Control
There’s no shortage of AI design generators that create impressive results, so why does Deep Design + Design Instructions matter so much? Because, with Visily, you can generate consistent, high-quality designs, without sacrificing ease of editing.
Our position has always been that the canvas matters when it comes to UI work, even when AI is doing most of the heavy lifting. Anyone creating product UI flows—especially when working with clients—inevitably has tweaks they want to make or client specifications they need to follow. Often, these are easier to simply do yourself with drag-and-drop canvas design tools than to awkwardly describe with text, waiting sometimes minutes for the AI to generate the changes (only to realize it misunderstood your instructions). We’ve built Visily to ensure you never have to make the trade-off between quality design and ability to edit.
A taste of what’s to come
We’re excited by all the possibilities that Design Instructions combined with Deep Design creates for our users. We believe this will be the jumping off point for Visily users to more fully (and creatively) express their product vision. Importantly, this is the precursor to many other great improvements to fidelity, control, and consistency we have planned for the future. More to come!
