The AI Design Stack

When to use: Going from a vague idea to visual UI concepts fast. Describe what you want (voice or text) and get interconnected screens in seconds. Perfect for brainstorming and exploring directions before committing.

When NOT to use: Production-ready designs. Outputs lack component logic, real states, and UX depth. It's a brainstorming partner, not a co-designer.

When to use: Sitemap generation, wireframe structure, and information architecture. Give it a brief, get a full site structure with section-by-section wireframes and placeholder copy. Saves hours of whiteboarding.

When NOT to use: Pixel-perfect visual design or branding work. Relume gives you the blueprint, not the finished building.

When to use: Generating on-brand photos, icons, illustrations, and mockups specifically for websites. Fills the gap between a great layout and a site that actually looks premium. The building blocks that go inside your design.

When NOT to use: Social media graphics, ad creatives, or marketing visuals outside of your website. That's a different problem (see #4).

When to use: Social media graphics, ad creatives, pitch deck imagery, product photography for marketing. Anything visual that goes around your website. Nails legible text rendering inside images - game-changer for social graphics.

When NOT to use: Website assets that go into your design (use Limora). Not for wireframing or UX work.

When to use: UI design, prototyping, and design systems. The MCP integration is the real unlock - AI agents can now design directly on the Figma canvas with full awareness of your components, spacing tokens, and color palette.

When NOT to use: Building live websites or generating production code. Figma is the canvas, not the builder.

When to use: Turning designs into live, responsive websites. AI-assisted layout, copy variations, and interactions. The Workshop feature lets you prototype and iterate directly in the browser.

When NOT to use: Complex web apps, e-commerce stores, or anything that needs heavy backend logic. Framer is for marketing sites, portfolios, and landing pages.

When to use: Everything that connects the other 6 tools. Brief to code, design to production, content to automation. Building products, internal tools, automating workflows. The layer that makes everything else work together.

When NOT to use: If you have zero interest in building or automating. But if you're a designer who wants to ship - this is the single biggest unlock for your career right now.

Total cost to get started: $0. Five of the seven tools have a usable free tier. You can test the entire workflow before spending a dollar. When you're ready to go pro, the full stack runs about $95-115/month.