Prompt engineering guide for Sivi AI Designer

Created: 5 Jul, 2024 ·Last Updated: 29 Sep, 2024

Overview

This document shares ideas to guide the AI Design Generator with effective prompt engineering for generative design. It focuses on detailed and structured prompts to generate high-quality, branded designs for your content across various dimensions and languages. You can explore the example prompts.

Model capability:

Works well for marketing purposes like product promotion, sales announcements, and personal branding. For celebratory content like birthday wishes or party invitations, it's still learning.
Sivi prioritizes giving you control over your designs. That's why it generates designs in layers, allowing for easy customization. This process can take a minute or two.
Sivi is constantly evolving! While some initial designs might not perfectly match your vision, we're always working to improve the model's accuracy.

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👉 Prompt examples & parameters of the AI design generator

👉 AI Design Made Easy: A Prompt Engineering Cheat Sheet

👉 Tasks performed by the AI design generator for branded designs

👉 Troubleshooting prompts and responses of Sivi AI Designer

👉 Get your questions about the AI design generator answered

Prompt examples & parameters of the AI design generator

Prompt modes

Prompt only: To generate text, image, and then design using the AI design generator.

AI Design Generator Prompt Example: Prompt only mode

Image assets and text: To generate design using the provided text and image.

AI Design Generator Prompt Example: Image assets and text mode

Prompt parameters

Simple prompt: A simple prompt can be a single phrase describing the design need.

Prompt	Design Output
Furniture sale
Quote by Steve Jobs
Ceramic products banner in Spanish
Personal branding for graphic designer
World chronicles

All the designs were generated with Sivi Gen-2, a constantly evolving model.

Advanced prompt: An advanced prompt can include one or more of the following parameters:

Description of what to design with offer, contact info, etc.
Dimensions in which the design needs to be generated (e.g., "Half-page ad")
Language to the text generator for copywriting
Color styles or color palette
Assets such as photos, logos, or vectors

Prompt	Design Output
Hey Sivi, can you create a poster to announce Jenga game on 8th July, 5 PM at Fun Mall? Add Register Now button and use fun colors.
Can you translate it to Danish?
WhatsApp promo for organic coffee by www.moha.com
WhatsApp promo for organic coffee by www.moha.com in Malayalam
Hey, can you create a half page ad for baby care products with blue, green, yellow, and pink, pastel colors using this image: https://media.hellosivi.com/photos/photo_877c3ed75551e903758b1c75aa044def.png?
generate content and designs for this image: https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1718819616289-fa0e80c23978?q=80&w=1974&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D

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AI Design made easy: A prompt engineering cheat sheet

Assets

Supported Asset Types:

Image: Use for photos, graphics, or visuals.
Icon: Use for symbols, UI elements, or small graphical representations.
Logo: Use for brand identification or business symbols.

Ways to Add Assets:

Generate Using Sivi: Request Sivi to create an asset based on your description.
Upload: Use the "upload option" within the chat box and choose the appropriate asset type.
Provide URL: Paste the URL of the asset to include it directly.

Image Properties:

No Crop: Specify if you don’t want the image cropped.
Remove BG: Indicate if you want the background removed.

Dimensions

Predefined Sizes:

Ad Sizes: For various ad formats like half page, skyscraper, rectangle, etc.
Social Media Sizes: Formats for platforms like Instagram (post), Pinterest (pin), LinkedIn (banner), etc.
Custom Dimensions: Specify exact sizes for website or specific use cases.

Colors

Specify Colors: Provide names or Hex codes via chat (e.g., "#FF5733" or "Coral").
Preferences: Choose from your saved color preferences.
Let Sivi Decide: Ask Sivi to suggest a suitable color palette.

Coming soon: Theme, backdrop styles, text styles. Let us know your ideas for more.

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Tasks performed by the AI design generator for branded designs

Prepare design brief

The first task of the AI Design Generator is to prepare the design brief, a blueprint for your design need. The AI design generator analyses your prompt to create a comprehensive design brief that outlines the following:

Identify the purpose:

This task in prompt engineering is to identify the purpose of the design from the initial prompt. This ensures the text generator crafts copy that perfectly aligns with your goals. Currently, Sivi understands various purposes like product promotion, brand awareness, and personal branding. But that's not all - creating birthday wishes, showcasing digital products with device mockups, and designing party invitations are on the way.

Write content:

Based on the identified purpose, the text generator writes a clear and concise copy using the supported semantic text blocks (title, button, offer, coupon, contact, etc.). Feel free to customize the generated copy or provide your own - Sivi gives you complete control over the final message!

Choose Dimensions:

Set your size or let the AI Design Generator choose one from popular options such as Instagram post, product banner, YouTube thumbnail, etc. Sivi supports custom dimensions beyond pre-defined aspect ratios such as 1:1, 2:1, etc.

Add Asset Links:

Upload your brand assets (image, vector, or logo) for a cohesive look in one of the following ways:

Provide Asset URL - You can paste your brand asset URL
Generate Assets - Generate one with the image generator, copy the image address, and provide that in the prompt.
Upload assets - Upload an image and submit. Once submitted, right click on the image, copy the image address and provide that in the prompt.

Add colors:

Provide brand colors or let the AI design generator choose an appropriate palette for you.

Set Language:

Choose the language for your design (Sivi supports 72 global languages!).

Generate designs

Once you prompt the AI Design Generator to submit the design brief, it combines all the gathered information into a structured JSON and submits the design brief JSON to the Sivi API to generate customizable designs. The API adds the request to a queue and responds back with the following:

Behind-the-scenes view of generation
A link to view the behind the scenes of the design generation process.
Estimated wait time based on the queue.

Once the generation is complete, you can click on the designs to customize them further in a design editor.

Here's a quick walk through of how you can use Sivi AI Designer to generate designs.

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Troubleshooting prompts and responses of Sivi AI Designer

Request not submitted:

If the AI design generator says the request has been submitted without calling the API, just prompt it to submit the request properly. Example prompts: “Can you submit the request properly?”, “Can you generate the designs?”

Image URL issues:

Ensure the image URL for uploaded/generated images is correct. If it throws as error, right-click on the image and copy the address before adding it to the prompt.

Incorrect design links:

If you receive dummy design links, prompt Sivi to submit the request properly and provide a valid link.

Insufficient credits:

If the API throws an error due to insufficient credits, buy credits and resubmit the request.

Get your questions about the AI design generator answered

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01I submitted a request, but, I didn’t get the designs.

It might be because of one of the following reasons:

Generation failed (review the design brief json).
Generation request not submitted properly (resubmit)

02I asked for three variations, but, it generated only one.

You might not receive all requested variations if some designs fail during generation.

03Why does the generation fail sometimes or throws error?

Error might be because of invalid URLs or parameters passed in the design brief JSON. You can report them.

04How many credits do I get?

Free users get 10 recurring monthly credits (increasing with paid plans). For influencer or educator programs, contact Sivi support.

05Why don’t the designs appear instantly?

Sivi processes the design brief, analyses your content, and then generates the designs from scratch, it takes a minute or two (we are working to reduce the time).

06Can it generate carousels and adapt across devices?

Not at the moment. It’s in our roadmap.

What business owners, marketers, AI enthusiasts, and designers say about Sivi

I like how the prompt wizard is created. Generate process is cool. I like the approach when you actually see what is going on, instead of looking at some spinner for X minutes and be not sure if it is still processing or it is freezing. Simple and easy to use Edit mode. This is really cool product.

George FrigoLead product designer

Sivi.ai is an impressive tool that can significantly speed up your design workflow. Its ability to generate visuals in a variety of dimensions and the option to edit the designs make it a versatile option for anyone in need of appealing designs.

Max YampolskyFounder @ One Click Crypto

Really great tool, game-changer that disrupts a huge market and everything connected with design and content creation.

Anna SvirshchevskayaProduct owner at @Paige

I am an early beta user of Sivi and I love its present and future. I love the deep thought the team has put in it to understand the design process and making it business owner savvy. This is transformational for our GTM to help us quickly have multiple options in design for our messaging.

Pradeep SoundararajanFounder CEO of Bugasura.io

As per the tool - I’ve been looking for a long time when there will be an AI tool to generate design from text with a user-friendly interface. And it seems like this is the one!

Oleksandr NaumovMarketer

Loved the idea of providing a prompt template to help new users get the most out of their first tries! I was surprised by how complete this product is, being able to edit the content and the visuals separately is a really good idea.

Florian MyterCo-Founder weave.ly

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