Abstract:The work aims to analyze the role of the increasingly intensified application of artificial itelligence (AD) in the design field on the design process and results in recent years, and study and judge what impact they will have on fu-ture designs. By comparing the objectives, tasks, system architecture, leaming mode and designer working mode of some current major AI design tools, the advantages and insurmountable problems of AI design application were found out, and is possible future development direction was determined. It is concluded that the current artificial intelligence is only committed to solving basic technical problems in design and lower-level design needs, and it is impossible to put forward design needs and creatively solve problems like human beings. The future AI application may further help designers to complete more transactional work, but it is impossible to overturm design and replace human thinking. Peo-ple need to be aware of the proliferation of various intelligent applications which will limit human skills and imagina-tion. Therefore, the development should be restricted and ethical issues of the technology cannot be underestimated.