CATEGORY 1 – AI Tools Basics
This type of AI tool can answer questions, summarize text and help you write emails or scripts.
What is a chatbot / large language model?
This kind of AI tool can create pictures from simple text like: “a blue train on white background”.
What is an image generation tool?
When you tell the AI the style you want, like “minimalist flat icon” or “watercolor illustration”, you are specifying this.
What is the art style?
Before using AI-generated visuals in a company, you should always check these internal documents to see what is allowed.
What are company policies / brand & AI guidelines?
Creating quick concept images for an e-learning slide background using AI instead of searching stock photos is an example of this benefit.
What is saving time / rapid prototyping?
This AI tool from OpenAI can generate both text and code, and you’re using it right now.
What is ChatGPT?
This popular graphic design platform has a built-in “Magic Media / Text to Image” feature for creating visuals with AI.
What is Canva?
“Close-up portrait, soft lighting, white background” are examples of these extra details that make your AI image more precise.
What are prompt modifiers / details?
This word describes giving credit to sources or tools used to create an image, even if it’s AI-generated.
What is attribution?
Using AI to turn a bullet list (“4 steps of the process”) into a flowchart visual is an example of this type of support.
Using AI to turn a bullet list (“4 steps of the process”) into a flowchart visual is an example of this type of support.
This term describes AI tools that can create new content like images, text, audio or video instead of just analyzing data.
What is generative AI?
This OpenAI image tool can turn a text description into detailed illustrations, logos or concept art.
What is DALL·E?
This feature lets you upload an image and ask the AI to change only part of it, like replacing the background or adding an object.
What is image editing / in-painting?
When an AI tool is trained on copyrighted images without permission, it raises concerns in this legal area.
What is copyright / intellectual property law?
When you ask AI to generate many thumbnail options for a course cover and then you manually choose and refine one, you are using AI in this role.
What is idea generation / co-designer / assistant?
This is the word for the text you type to tell an AI tool what to create.
What is a prompt?
This type of AI model (also used in Stable Diffusion) creates images by starting from random noise and “denoising” it step by step.
What is a diffusion model?
When you use the same seed number in an image tool, it helps you get consistent variations. The number is called this.
What is a seed?
This is the name for invisible or hard-to-see marks embedded in an image to show it was created or edited by AI.
What is an AI watermark?
Asking AI to generate the same layout in Arabic and English versions with mirrored alignment supports this design requirement.
What is localization / bilingual design?
When you give an AI tool a few example images or texts to copy the style or format, you are doing this kind of “learning”.
What is few-shot learning or example-based prompting?
This Adobe solution uses AI (branded “Firefly”) to generate and edit images directly inside Photoshop and Illustrator.
What is Adobe Firefly / Adobe’s generative AI?
Giving the AI tool information about brand colors, fonts, logo and tone of voice is an example of using this to keep designs consistent.
What is a brand style guide / design system?
When we use AI images in learning, we must check that they don’t reinforce unfair stereotypes. This principle is called what?
What is bias / fairness in AI?
Combining a chat-based AI (like ChatGPT) to write microcopy and a visual AI (like DALL·E or Canva) to design the image is an example of this type of workflow.
What is a multi-tool / integrated AI workflow?