Practitioner AI workflow: 8 tools that survived real UX design work¶
Insight: A practitioner's tested 8-tool workflow mapped to design phases: (1) ChatGPT for research/thinking/PRD analysis, (2) Uizard for early sketch-to-wireframe ideation, (3) Moonchild AI for high-fidelity UI generation (works best section-by-section, not end-to-end), (4) Dovetail for qualitative research synthesis, (5) Gemini AI for custom illustrations, (6) Figma + Figma Make for final UI and prototyping, (7) Attention Insight for predictive eye-tracking validation, (8) Claude for design specs and developer documentation.
Detail: Key finding: Moonchild performs best when given structure section-by-section rather than generating entire flows at once. Claude is specifically valued for "translating visual decisions into clear, actionable documentation" at the developer handoff stage. The author's rule: "if a tool creates more review work than it saves production work, drop it."