Designing with the AI Assistant
Refine my prompt & Plan before building
The Assistant does exactly what you ask — so shaping the ask before it builds is the single easiest way to get a better result. Two opt-in options do that for you: one polishes each prompt, the other drafts a whole art-direction plan you approve up front.
Two ways to shape the brief first
Both options live in the Assistant options flyout — open it from the sliders icon in the composer bar, under the section titled Before building ("Shape the brief before the assistant starts."). They're toggles, and both are off by default. Turn on whichever fits the job; you can run them together or leave them off for direct, literal execution.
A small dot on the sliders icon reminds you that an opt-in option is currently active.
Refine my prompt
Refine my prompt "polishes each prompt into a stronger brief before sending, and may ask a quick question." It's the lightweight option — good for a single edit or when your wording is rough.
With it on, sending a prompt briefly shows Refining… while the Assistant tightens your words and fills obvious gaps. If something important is missing, it pops a short clarifying-questions card — "A few quick questions to nail the brief:" — with option chips you can tap, an Or type your own… field, and Continue or Skip buttons at the bottom. Answer what you like and skip the rest.
Your original message is never lost. The bubble keeps your exact words, with the polished version tucked under a Refined brief disclosure you can expand to see what was sent.
Short follow-ups like "continue" or "make it bigger" skip refinement automatically — they build on the last turn instead of being rewritten.
Plan before building
Plan before building goes further: it "drafts a full art-direction plan you approve first, then builds to it all session." Use it when you're starting a whole design or a multi-step layout and want the palette, type and structure settled before a single element moves.
Send your prompt and the status reads Planning the design…, then a plan card appears — "Review the plan before the assistant builds:" — laying out the whole direction:
- A concept headline and a Direction line describing the look.
- A palette shown as labelled colour swatches.
- A Type line (headings, body and scale).
- A layout description and a numbered Steps list.
- The Copy it intends to set, quoted role by role.
Three actions sit at the bottom:
| Action | What it does |
|---|---|
| Approve & build | Locks this art direction and builds to it for the rest of the session |
| Regenerate | Drafts a fresh plan in a different direction |
| Skip | Discards the plan and proceeds without one |
Read it, regenerate until the direction is right, then approve once. From there the Assistant builds — and every later prompt in the session works within the direction you signed off on.
When to use which
- Refine my prompt — a quick, single change, or any time your prompt is rough and you just want it tightened without a heavy planning step.
- Plan before building — a full design or a layout with several moving parts, where locking the palette, type and structure up front saves you from re-steering later.
You can turn both on at once. Plan mode sets the session's overall art direction; Refine tightens each individual prompt on the way in. And either can stay off when you want the Assistant to take your instruction literally, exactly as written.
If you keep a brand kit pinned, combine it with Plan before building so the approved palette and type reflect your brand from the very first draft.
Next
Get the wording itself right in Writing prompts that work, and let the after-build check tidy the result with Auto-review the result.