Designers, Where Do You Get Your Visuals?

[John_165]

When creating mobile or app designs, where do you usually get your images from?

Is it from Freepik, LottieFiles, Flaticon, Icon8 — or do you create them yourself?

[rproffitt]

We don't create a lot of them but a company I consult with has turned to AI Art.

For protest signs we create our own. Here's one example:

[John_165]

We don't create a lot of them but a company I consult with has turned to AI Art.

That's really interesting! AI art is such a creative space. If you don't mind me asking, which tools or platforms do you use for generating your AI art?

[jkon]

We make a vertical distinction between visuals for UI (which are under the R&D department) and visuals for content management / site promotion (which are under the S&D department).

In the first case, which covers every visual within the scaffolding of an app / site, we normally create them ourselves. These are typically SVG files, and the ideas for them might come from various sources, or they could be an alteration of a readymade SVG (e.g., from Freepik, with an account and payment). Especially for icons, lately we've been grouping them into a font file using https://icomoon.io/app/#/select. However, if this service stops being free, we will use a native tool to do it.

For content management and app/site promotion, we primarily use Freepik (Premium, of course), although I'm not sure that will be the case for much longer. We also use ChatLLM in some cases when we want more control over an AI-generated image or video. Of course, in those apps / sites, there's always a phrase indicating that some secondary content images or videos are AI-generated, usually on the terms/privacy or/and GDPR info page.

I am not in that department, so they probably use more tools than I know (or care to know). In the past, I know they experimented with several AI services and image banks. What amazes me is that some of their AI-created videos for app / site promotion (that are clearly made with the help of AI) go viral easily on TikTok or YouTube and drive real visitors to the app/site.

[Dani]

I woke up today to find that my husband asked ChatGPT to generate an image of my dog. The coloring is correct with the exception of Sadie doesn't have white at the tip of her tail.