Webdesigner Survival Kit 2025
(AI & Design Tools That Actually Help (And Won’t Steal Your Job… Yet)
It’s 2025. AI is everywhere — your fridge knows your mood, your text editor finishes your sentences (and sometimes your jokes), and yet... your client still wants “just one more version” of that landing page.
Whether you're deep in the design trenches or just need tools that make things a little less painful, here’s a no-BS, actually-useful list of AI + design tools that can help you work smarter, not just faster.
Let’s go. Coffee optional. Sarcasm included.
🧠 1. Relume – For when you want the wireframe yesterday
Just type in what the website is about (“Luxury organic tofu delivery service for dogs” – we don’t judge), and Relume will spit out a clean, structured wireframe like magic.
It’s like having a junior designer who never sleeps and doesn’t complain.
✍️ 2. Grammarly / Hemingway / Typely – Your personal text therapist
You're a designer, not a copywriter, right? And yet here you are, writing headlines that sound like haikus written in a caffeine haze.
These tools help you turn "Click here and you’ll be happy maybe?" into "Start now — success is one click away."
💡 Pro tip: Hemingway is savage. If your sentence makes sense to your grandma, Hemingway will still say it’s “too complex.”
📦 3. TinyPNG – Because heavy images are sooo 2022
Your design looks amazing, but the images are 8MB each and your site loads slower than a snail on vacation.
TinyPNG squishes your images without turning them into pixel soup. And yes, there's also a TinyJPG — they’re equal opportunity compressors.
🧑🦯 4. WAVE – Accessibility, but make it simple
Want to make your site more accessible but not sure where to start? WAVE shows you exactly what’s wrong — missing alt text, bad contrast, unlabeled buttons — the works.
It's basically a helpful teacher, not a grumpy validator bot.
🪄 5. Magician.design – The AI sidekick you didn’t know you needed
Need icon ideas? Button text? A sprinkle of UI ✨magic✨?
This Figma plugin is like a little wizard living in your toolbar. It suggests, it generates, and it doesn't ask for royalties.
👉 magician.design
🪄 BONUS: Galileo AI – Full UI mockups from a prompt
You’re tired. It’s 2AM. You have a vague idea and zero pixels on the canvas.
Galileo to the rescue. Just type: “Fitness app for moms who love cats” — and boom, it gives you a full-on mockup that looks like someone actually cared.
Final Thoughts (aka “the moral of the story”)
You don’t need 75 tools in your bookmarks. You need a few that work with you, not against you. The ones above? They’re like your design Avengers. Minus the drama.
Use them. Abuse them. Let them carry you through your busiest weeks.
Just don’t let AI write your entire portfolio bio — we’ll all be able to tell. 😄🎨
