I was not a big user of AI tools. You might be surprised, but I only recently got the paid version of ChatGPT and feel that I started really using it quite late compared to others. However, way back, around 2 years ago, I used a prototyping tool for the first time. However, since then, these prototyping tools have gotten better and have AI integrated into them. So here I want to bring attention to my experience with the two AI prototyping tools, which I recently explored: Lovable and Gamma.app.
Introduced in our AI prototyping guest lecture, Lovable stands out as a tool that can develop apps and websites by merely chatting with an AI without any coding skills necessary, within a few minutes. I explored it for our course, testing how it works. To come up with a prompt, I went to ChatGPT to generate a prompt to then input into Lovable. It is really smart; you can continue to chat with it just like ChatGPT, to improve the web or app, and customize it however you like. It makes me think that anything is possible, and that this is a new way to develop our own webpages, apps, and scalable online businesses without coding expertise. However, of course, just like any freemium model, the free version has limits in functionalities, but the possibilities are non-negotiable.
Gamma.app is also a great tool to develop presentations as well as simple webpages from prompts, focusing on ‘content-to-visual’ output, allowing for anybody without design skills or too busy to skip the manual work. It impressed me when I experimented with it for a pitch and needed a presentation. It generated matching layouts and colours while looking very professional. In this respect, one can focus more on what they want to say instead of how the design looks.
I found it intriguing how AI has been moving into the creative realm and can now be a creative partner to many of us. These tools are also so simple to learn; there are so many different resources at our disposal. Simple YouTube tutorials can teach us how to use these tools and enable us to unlock new capabilities.
Let me know in the comments your thoughts on these AI tools? Have you ever built a fully operational website using AI?
