Making Professional Logos with Stable Cascade UX Review
Today I’m going to try making professional logos for free using Stable Cascade. I’m also following along with Matt Wolfe’s YouTube video on how to do this.
Getting Started
Matt tells us that there are two ways to access the tool:
- via Pinokio
- via Hugging Face
Pinokio runs Stable Cascade locally on your computer so no internet is required. He demonstrates this method but comments that generating images locally takes up a lot of GPU even with a powerful computer, so for a lot of people this might not be a good option.
My computer is nowhere near Matt’s, so I’m going to be accessing Stable Cascade online through Hugging Face.
Go to the website and either search for “stable cascade” or select it under Models.
On the Stable Cascade page, you can read about the model.
Under “Spaces using stabilityai/stable-cascade”, select ‘multimodalart/stable-cascade’ to go to the prompt field.
My User Journey
You can get going right away by typing in what you want in the prompt field.
My first prompt is:
A logo for a lawn care company called “Always Green”
Voila, in seconds, a logo is produced and is available to be downloaded and shared.
The quality of the image is pretty good — there aren’t any typos and a pleasant green is used. My only note is that the icon should maybe resemble grass for a lawn care company.
I’ll run it again a couple of times to see what else is generated.
Version 2 has a bolder look than the first one. The image still doesn’t make me think of a lawn care service, more of a plant business.
The third version is a nice clean image as well. It makes me think of a landscaping or environmental company.
If the business exclusively does lawn care like mowing and fertilizing, I would consider adjusting the prompt to try and get grass as the image, or maybe an image of a lawn mower.
I’ll move on now and enter a new prompt:
A logo for a bubble tea company called “Boba Baby”
I like how cute this first image is. I think it looks like something that would be used for a bubble tea shop. It would be even better if there was a straw and the tea and boba could be seen inside the transparent cup.
This version makes me think less of a bubble tea company than the first.
Maybe the third time will be a charm…
Unfortunately, I think this version looks the strangest and doesn’t make me think of bubble tea, but rather ice cream or snow cones.
Kaly’s Overall User Experience
Running Stable Cascade via Hugging Face went well. The free GPU use option was fast and easy to use.
For today’s user journey, I wouldn’t worry about paying for faster processing. In the future, if more people start using the free version, it may slow things down, but for now, it’s great.
The images were good quality and re-running prompts is also fast and easy.
Prompts might have to be more specific for improved images. There’s also the option to re-run several more times until you find an image you are satisfied with.
Overall, I rate this user experience a 4/5. Accessing and using the model went smoothly. The outputs were good quality, but I wouldn’t go with some of the images.
I’ll definitely be using Stable Cascade in the future.
