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Create stunning designs lightning fast with Microsoft Designer AI

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Aug 25, 2024

(Originally published on May 1, 2023 by Mohit Anand)

 

Hi, Microsoft 365 Insiders! My name is Mohit Anand, and I’m a Principal Product Manager on the Microsoft Designer team.

 

I’m excited to share that Microsoft Designer is now available in Expanded Public Preview and anyone can try it for FREE*.

 

Create stunning designs with Microsoft Designer AI

 

We announced Microsoft Designer on October 12, 2022, and our team has been using your feedback over the past few months to make improvements to the experience – we launched close to 10 new features and resolved over 100 bugs. Thank you for helping us make Designer better!

 

With Designer, you can describe the design you want to create and get 1-click design suggestions, powered by the latest advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence.

 

Try “A social media post about a summer concert series” and see the magic for yourself.


Microsoft Designer

 

Improvements made to Designer based on your feedback

 

Make your designs dance by adding motion. Design Ideas helps you integrate new design elements, and shows you variations on the design, including our magic motion templates.

Add motion to your creations

 

Resize your design to other social media formats and save a ton of time with the help of AI.

Leverage AI to resize your designs

 

Looking for a catchy caption or hashtag but short on time? Type in a few ideas and choose a goal (like increasing engagement or driving awareness) to get AI-powered suggestions for the perfect message to pair with your design.

AI-powered suggestions

 

[Coming Soon] Do more with images by leveraging our AI-powered tools, and remove photo backgrounds, or just specific areas in a few seconds.

Do more with images using AI

 

Known limitations

  • Designer is currently only available in English.
  • You'll need to sign up for and/or sign in with a Microsoft email account (@outlook.com, @hotmail.com, and more). Work accounts are not currently supported.
  • Designer is available through any web browser for your desktop. Designer for iOS and Android is coming soon!

 

Feedback

We’d love to know your feedback and feature requests. Submit your thoughts by clicking the Feedback button in Designer.

Send feedback in Designer

*Preview means we're still working on some features and actively incorporating your feedback to improve the experience. The preview of the Microsoft Designer app is available for free.  A paid Microsoft 365 subscription will be required to continue using some of these features at a later date. 

 

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Updated Aug 25, 2024
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  • ClaraF2210's avatar
    ClaraF2210
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 02, 2024

    After months of using Designer and after reading months ago that it was possible to commercialize Designer images, today I went back to update myself by chance on permissions and I discover that it is no longer possible. I pay a subscription to not have the possibility of such use and I am an illustrator. What do I need Designer for to play at home? I am very disappointed, the continuous change in permissions to use Designer images (first yes then no), having to understand very long legal pages of a thousand parts and then not having anything in hand is truly exhausting and an absurd waste of time. So I have no other alternatives than to look for one of your Competitors now to have a service that you pretend to provide? It is not serious. If I have to use Designer professionally I look for a way to speed up my work, but if I cannot use Designer images, then I will also produce the images myself. Desolate

  • Cilia2407's avatar
    Cilia2407
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 25, 2024

    I have been using Designer now for 2-3 weeks, and in general I'm quite happy. Have discovered some biases that I will share in another comment.

    Issue right now is that I keep getting error messages on my Pro account, while my free account generates images well. Support couldn't really help with this and shared this link. Hence why I'm posting here.

  • Cilia2407's avatar
    Cilia2407
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 25, 2024

    So - about biases..... I live in Saudi Arabia, and finding photos for presentations is quite hard. I have exhausted stock photos, and Microsoft Designer felt like a massive GIFT when I discovered it and started playing around. In general I'm very happy, BUT there are some massive biases that I have discovered:

     

    • While photos of groups of people will dress several ladies in Niqabs, I am not allowed to create a photo of a Niqabi lady as it goes against policy. Makes little sense....
    • It is extremely hard to get Designer to create photos of children without hijabs or shamals. Girls are ALWAYS dressed in hijabs and boys typically are dressed with shamals even if I specify again and again that they should NOT have their hair/heads covered. Children here do not cover. 
    • Regarding the above, I have been struggling to create images from classrooms with a traditionally dressed Saudi teacher and children in school uniforms with uncovered heads. The work around became "In a classroom in the UK the children are dressed in school uniforms..... and their Saudi Arabian teacher dressed in traditional clothes....."
    • Vey often women will be wearing shamals and not shawls. This would never happen.
    • And for sports settings like jogging prompting women in modest sports outfits and hair covered, their stomachs will still be showing.....

    Wanted to share this as it to me shows the biases of how girls dress in Saudi. The AI created representation of children is very misleading.

    Otherwise - I'm very grateful for this tool 🙂