Instead of describing UI changes with text alone, Google's AI Studio allows users to annotate a screenshot—drawing boxes and adding comments—to create a powerful multimodal prompt. The AI understands the combined visual and textual context to execute precise changes.

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When iterating on a Gemini 3.0-generated app, the host uses the annotation feature to draw directly on the preview to request changes. This visual feedback loop allows for more precise and context-specific design adjustments compared to relying solely on ambiguous text descriptions.

Text descriptions of physical pain are often vague. To improve an AI coach's helpfulness, use multi-modal inputs. Uploading a photo and circling the exact point of pain or a video showing limited range of motion provides far more precise context than words alone.

Instead of writing detailed specs, product teams at Google use AI Studio to build functional prototypes. They provide a screenshot of an existing UI and prompt the AI to clone it while adding new features, dramatically accelerating the product exploration and innovation cycle.

Cues uses 'Visual Context Engineering' to let users communicate intent without complex text prompts. By using a 2D canvas for sketches, graphs, and spatial arrangements of objects, users can express relationships and structure visually, which the AI interprets for more precise outputs.

Inspired by printer calibration sheets, designers create UI 'sticker sheets' and ask the AI to describe what it sees. This reveals the model's perceptual biases, like failing to see subtle borders or truncating complex images. The insights are used to refine prompting instructions and user training.

Instead of asking designers to create mockups from a verbal brief, PMs can use AI tools to generate multiple visual explorations themselves. This allows them to bring more concrete, refined ideas to the table, leading to a richer and more effective collaboration with the design team.

A practical AI workflow for product teams is to screenshot their current application and prompt an AI to clone it with modifications. This allows for rapid visualization of new features and UI changes, creating an efficient feedback loop for product development.

AI tools that generate functional UIs from prompts are eliminating the 'language barrier' between marketing, design, and engineering teams. Marketers can now create visual prototypes of what they want instead of writing ambiguous text-based briefs, ensuring alignment and drastically reducing development cycles.

To avoid generic, 'purple AI slop' UIs, create a custom design system for your AI tool. Use 'reverse prompting': feed an LLM like ChatGPT screenshots of a target app (e.g., Uber) and ask it to extrapolate the foundational design system (colors, typography). Use this output as a custom instruction.

The team dogfoods its product by taking screenshots of their live UI and using AI Studio to generate a functional clone. This allows them to rapidly prototype and iterate on new features for the very product they are building, achieving a working version in just over a minute.