Summary: AI prototyping tools follow general directions but lack the judgment and nuance of an experienced designer.Summary: AI prototyping tools follow general directions but lack the judgment and nuance of an experienced designer.

Over the past few months, the UX design field has been flooded with AI-powered prototyping tools that generate interfaces instantly from natural-language prompts. Despite the massive marketing hype, our evaluation with real design scenarios revealed that these tools can follow instructions to achieve a general goal, but they lack the sophistication to weigh design tradeoffs and produce thoughtful, high-quality designs without extensive guidance from humans.