Design Team Stack
Generate concepts, create brand-consistent assets, build interactive prototypes, and produce production-ready visuals: the modern design workflow.
Our Take
This is a team stack, priced and scoped for multiple designers working from shared assets, not a solo freelancer's toolkit. Midjourney and Recraft both generate concept imagery, the real reason to run both is Recraft's vector output for production-ready assets versus Midjourney's stronger raw concept quality, a solo designer doing occasional concept work doesn't need both. Figma remains the actual production and handoff layer everything else feeds into.
True Cost & Exit
What this stack really costs to run, and how you'd leave it.
Monthly cost
from $56/mo (all core tiers)
Lean alternative
Figma alone ($12/mo) covers production and handoff for a solo designer; add Midjourney or Recraft, not both, only once you need AI-generated concept imagery as a starting point.
Exit path
Figma offers an opt-out from AI training and your production files export to standard image and vector formats at any tier; Midjourney trains on generated images by default with no published opt-out, so treat anything generated there as not fully private.
Tools in This Stack
Generate images and video with the highest visual quality of any AI model: V8.2 leads on photorealism, personalization, and artistic range, with Image-to-Video now live.
Turn natural-language prompts and design files directly into working prototypes and apps with Figma Make, plus AI imagery, video, and animation in the same workspace.
Turn a prompt or connected app data into a complete, fully-editable design, deck, or interactive web page in seconds. Canva AI 2.0 adds Slack/Gmail/Notion connectors and living brand memory.
Generate raster and vector images, logos, mockups, and brand-consistent style sets from text prompts, with dedicated background removal and vectorization tools.
Generate page layouts and copy from a prompt with AI agents built into Framer, manage CMS content, write custom code, and review sites for accessibility and SEO, all editable on a visual canvas.