Tools Guidebook
Research
Design
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Gemini
Gemini is Google’s next-generation AI model designed for advanced reasoning, multimodal understanding, and deep integration across Google’s ecosystem.
ChatGPT
ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, is a versatile conversational AI known for its natural language generation, creativity, and coding capabilities.
Perplexity
Perplexity is an AI-powered search and answer engine that combines the capabilities of large language models with real-time web data.
Deepseek
Deepseek is a large language model built by Deepseek AI, optimized for research-level tasks and advanced programming.
Claude
Claude, created by Anthropic, is a conversational AI designed with a focus on helpfulness, safety, and ethical alignment.
Krea
Krea is a powerful tool for package design, enabling designers to quickly generate visual concepts, explore different styles, and create high-quality mockups.
Vizcom
Vizcom accelerates the sketching phase of package design by turning rough ideas into high-quality AI-generated visuals, allowing faster iteration and clearer visual communication.
Pacdora
Pacdora is a design platform tailored for packaging, allowing designers to create dielines, visualize 3D mockups, and generate ready-to-print files efficiently—all in the browser.
Photoshop
Design
Photoshop is essential for detailed editing of packaging assets, enabling fine-tuned control over colors, textures, typography, and layered compositions for print or digital presentation.
Market Muse
MarketMuse helps package designers craft compelling and SEO-optimized product descriptions or website copy by analyzing content gaps and suggesting improvements, enhancing brand storytelling.
Google Lab
Google Lab tools (like Colab) can support custom AI models or data analysis, enabling packaging researchers to prototype algorithms for consumer trend prediction or sustainability scoring.
Zoom
Zoom facilitates remote collaboration with teams and stakeholders during the packaging design process, from brainstorming sessions to client presentations and design reviews.
WGSN
WGSN offers trend forecasting and consumer insights, helping packaging designers align visual styles, materials, and messaging with future consumer preferences and seasonal trends.
Stable Diffusion
Stable Diffusion enables generative image creation, allowing designers to produce conceptual artwork, moodboards, or experimental package textures using AI-driven prompts.
Midjourney
Design
Midjourney is used to generate imaginative concept art or packaging styles based on descriptive prompts, inspiring visual directions early in the ideation phase.
Packify
Design
Packify helps automate the generation of dielines and structural templates, allowing faster prototyping of packaging forms while maintaining technical accuracy.
Figma
Figma supports collaborative UI/UX design and layout prototyping for digital package assets, like interactive AR packaging, unboxing experiences, or e-commerce previews.
ComfyUI
ComfyUI is a node-based UI for Stable Diffusion that gives designers modular control over AI-generated packaging concepts, allowing experimentation with textures and styles.
Bardeen
Bardeen automates repetitive tasks in the packaging workflow—like copying text, syncing folders, or sending files—boosting productivity across creative and operational stages.
Notion
Notion helps teams organize research, manage packaging projects, and document design iterations in a centralized workspace for better collaboration and version tracking.
Adobe Firefly
Adobe Firefly generates images, text effects, and AI-enhanced designs for packaging using natural language prompts, allowing rapid prototyping of visuals with brand consistency.
