How to Generate UI Designs from Text with Galileo AI

Galileo AI generates interface designs from a text description and exports them to Figma as editable layers. You describe a screen, it returns a layout with real components, text, and spacing you can adjust.

The catch is prompt quality. Feed it “a dashboard” and you get a blurry placeholder. Feed it constraints and you get something a designer can actually build on.

What Galileo AI actually produces

The output is not an image. It is a node tree of frames, autolayout containers, and text layers that open in Figma with a plugin. That distinction matters, because a flat PNG cannot be edited, and most AI design tools only ship PNGs.

How do you write a prompt that works?

Name the screen, the platform, and the content. Vague verbs waste a generation. A useful prompt looks like three stacked sentences.

• Screen: “mobile onboarding screen for a budgeting app”
• Content: “headline, two-line explanation, primary continue button, skip link”
• Style: “light theme, large rounded corners, one accent colour”

Generations run one at a time and each takes under a minute in normal conditions. You get two or three variations per prompt, which is where the iteration starts.

How do you move a design into Figma?

Run the Figma plugin, paste a share token from Galileo, and the selected generation lands as a frame. Text stays as text, buttons stay as components. Renaming happens automatically but rarely matches your design system, so budget ten minutes per screen to relabel tokens.

Is Galileo AI free?

No. Galileo is paid, with a free trial of limited generations that is enough to test output quality but not to run a project. Paid plans are aimed at teams and priced per seat; the pricing page quotes custom tiers rather than a public number, which means you have to talk to sales. That friction is real and worth weighing if you just want to experiment.

Where does it fall short?

It designs consumer-style screens well and dense data tables poorly. Ask for a 12-column admin grid with filters and the result often collapses into a plain list. Copy is generic placeholder text, not product-specific writing, so expect a rewrite pass. It also cannot read your existing design system, so brand consistency is a manual job.

Use it when you need to explore layout directions fast, especially for mobile flows. Skip it if you already have a mature component library and a designer who can move quickly.

Key Takeaways

• Galileo AI generates editable Figma layers, not flat images.
• Prompt with screen, content list, and style in three short parts.
• There is no free tier beyond a trial; pricing is custom and sales-gated.
• It handles consumer mobile layouts better than dense admin tables.
• Expect a rewrite pass for copy and manual relabelling for your design tokens.