The secret is reminding them that blank space is a design choice.
AND PUT THE FUCKING THING ON A TRANSPARENT BACKGROUND AND DON'T JUST PUT IT ON CHECKERBOARDS
I'm designing some fun stickers for my nieces and can't draw. It's been a learning experience.
To me, its funny, I think the newest models still all do this, it's just so funny -
All the image sites show the checkerboard patterns to get clicks, the LLMs just observe and regurgitate the pattern.
And, as "advanced" as they are, and so much better than the models that came before, they still don't actually understand what you're asking for.
It's funny until the third or fourth iteration when it randomly decides to forget about transparency. Then it gets my blood pressure up.
I use AI to make small edits to designs I've already done (one of our side businesses does deal with graphic design). Like changing the color of an entire layer or quickly editing complicated text. One thing I've noticed is that if you enter more than 2 or 3 edits, every model will just completely redo the design into a generic AI mess. I don't know why they lose the thread, but you have to really work one step at a time and waste time generating multiple images as steps in the process. There's only one super useful AI tool in this space, but it's locked behind an annual subscription by Corel.
Having grown up in Ottawa in Ottawa-headquartered Corel's heyday, it's interesting to hear someone describe a tool they sell as the only super-useful one in a market segment!
They were pretty late to the game, and it's really nothing but a wrapper on other services (you can choose the model when you prompt it), but they do seem to have gotten this right, in my opinion.
It's great for rough drafts, but requires real work to turn into something final. It's PHENOMENAL at macro building and saves just a metric shit ton of time there. It's also very good at multiple simple changes if you don't want to actually build a macro.
They seem to have hit the sweet spot of providing the tool to support the artist instead of just replacing the artist skills.
Edit: I am unaffiliated with the company other than using their product. It actually turned me from a one time purchaser when I needed the updated tools (twice, I think) to an annual subscriber. I said I would never do that, but it really is an extreme time saver.