Designs & the studio

What happens when I choose Use this design?

By Nimanto 2 min read

In short

Use this design opens a pop-up with two ways to build the invitation. AI Build writes it from a sentence you type or say, asking only for what is missing. Build from scratch opens the step-by-step form with a live preview beside it.

Use this design is the button on every design tile, in every preview and on each design's own page. Choosing it for a Signature design opens the create page with a pop-up: "How do you want to build your invitation?" A Card invitation opens the card studio instead; see Make a card.

The two ways

  • AI Build: tell us in a sentence, typed or spoken, who it is for, when and where. AI picks out the names, the day and time, the place and who is hosting, then asks one question at a time for anything that is still missing. It never invents a name, a day, a time or an address.
  • Build from scratch: fill in every detail yourself, page by page, with the live preview beside you.

Either way you can change every word later, and nobody sees the invitation until you publish it. Closing the pop-up also leaves you on the form. A Build with AI button beside Change design opens it again.

AI Build, step by step

  1. Type your details in the box, or tap the microphone and say them. The hint reads "Names, day, time, place, who's hosting".
  2. Choose Continue. AI reads what you wrote and fits it to the design.
  3. Answer any question that follows, by tapping a choice or typing your own answer. Skip is offered on optional questions; Back returns one question.
  4. When nothing is missing, choose Create my invitation, or Check the details to see every answer in the step-by-step form first.

A wedding with several functions gets its own pages: tick the functions you are having, then set the day, time and place for each. AI then writes the title, the invitation message in the design's own manner and the short lines the design has room for. It uses only what you told it.

Build from scratch, step by step

The form runs through at most five steps: The essentials, Functions or Schedule, More details, Photos, and Review & create. It asks only for the details the design actually prints; see Smart fields. The phone preview on the right scrolls to whatever you are typing.

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