A composite of AI images rendered with Adobe’s Firefly, using the 3 UX tools that support an impactful story: scenario, persona, user flow.
A composite of AI images rendered with Adobe’s Firefly, using the 3 UX tools that support an impactful story: scenario, persona, user flow.

3 UX tools that can drive visual AI prompts: scenario, persona, and user flow

UX thinking is at the forefront of mastering visual prompts

Eva Schicker
7 min readJan 12, 2024

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UX design gives us many tools to navigate the research and design process to build a product. These tools help us write outlines and documents of every aspect when iterating the product development cycles until launch.

Similarly, rather than randomly creating visual prompts, we can borrow best practices from UX to use a trackable methodology to create AI-generated images.

A word of caution: AI image renders take a lot of time. Many iterations and refinements of the prompts are necessary before a desired image is closely rendered by the AI generator. Adjustments in Photoshop or similar software are most likely a must when finalizing a high-quality composite image. Patience and time are advised. The results can be stunning!

Why are scenarios, personas, and user flows important for writing visual prompts?

It is absolutely fine to experiment with visual AI-prompts written intuitively and ad hoc. However, to truly illustrate a story at hand, we need to have a trackable thought process to get the right AI-generated image .

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Eva Schicker

Hello. I write about UX, UI, AI, animation, tech, fiction & art through the eyes of a designer & painter. I live in NYC. Book author, UX Grad GA NYC.