Microsoft has launched its AI-powered design tool, Designer, in public preview with an expanded set of features. Designer is a web app that can generate designs for presentations, posters, digital postcards, invitations, graphics and more to share on social media and other channels. It leverages user-created content and DALL-E 2, OpenAI’s text-to-image AI, to ideate designs, with drop-downs and text boxes for further customization and personalization. Designer can generate written captions and hashtags relevant for social media posts, offering several suggestions users can choose from. It can also create animated visuals, complete with backgrounds and text transitions, powered by AI. In the future, Designer will gain additional editing features, including the ability to place an object in a specific spot in a graphic and automatically fill in the rest of a picture. Designer will remain free during the preview period, and once the Designer app is generally available, it’ll be included in Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions and have some functionality free to use for non-subscribers. Users will have full usage rights to commercialize the images they create with Designer and Image Creator.
