Workspace & Projects in Kognie: Creating, Sharing, and Organizing Your Work
Definition — In Kognie, a project is the long-lived workspace for a body of related design work. It owns all of your assets and every design you create inside it, keeps each design's creative context intact, and can be shared with teammates who can continue the work from your latest version.
Quick answer — To work in Kognie, you create a project by naming it, choosing a design goal, and selecting a platform category. Kognie then recommends the assets your goal needs — you can optionally upload them or not and let Kognie generate them. Everything you make is autosaved inside the project, organized so each design keeps its own assets and context. You can share projects with teammates and export finished designs as PNG or JPG.
How Kognie organizes your work
Understanding a few simple concepts makes everything else on this page click. Kognie separates your work into a small set of concepts so that each design always gets exactly the right context — nothing leaks between graphics, and you never have to re-upload anything.
- Project — your workspace. A project owns everything: all your assets and all the designs you make inside it. Think of it as one body of related work (a campaign, a client, a launch).
- Design — a single deliverable, like Graphic #1, a flyer, or a carousel. Each design has its own goal and its own revision history, so reopening it weeks later restores the right creative context automatically.
- Asset — a media file such as a logo, product photo, or background. Assets are uploaded (or AI-generated) once and owned by the project, then attached to whichever designs need them.
Two rules follow from this, and they're the reason Kognie stays clean as a project grows:
In Kognie, assets are owned at the user’s account level and can be accessed from inside a project but referenced only by the designs that use them, so each AI generation sees only its own design's assets — a logo shared across two graphics is stored once and never leaks unwanted images between them.
- Upload once, reuse anywhere — an asset lives at the project level, and each design links only the assets it needs. Reopening an old design re-uploads nothing — Kognie already knows which assets belong to it. A shared logo is stored a single time and reused across every design that references it.
- Each design keeps its own goal and context — a design's goal is fixed when it's created, so its creative direction travels with it. If you change direction to a genuinely different goal, Kognie starts a fresh creative conversation rather than mixing the two — keeping your workspace coherent.
How do I create a project in Kognie?
Every design lives inside a project, and the setup screen is dynamic — it adapts to your design goal so you're only asked for what that goal actually needs.
HowTo — Creating a project in Kognie:
- Name your project. Give it any name — you can change it later.
- Select your design goal. Choose what you're creating from the design goal dropdown (for example, Product Launch). If your goal isn't listed, describe a custom goal in the dropdown. Your choice personalizes the AI design recommendations and the assets Kognie asks for next.
- Choose a platform category and size. Pick a category — Social Media, Print, Creative & Branding, or Web & Product — then a preset size. Some popular Social Media presets include the sizes listed below.
| Social Media preset | Dimensions (px) |
|---|---|
| Instagram Post | 1080 × 1080 |
| Instagram Story | 1080 × 1920 |
| Facebook Post | 1200 × 630 |
| Facebook Cover | 820 × 302 |
| YouTube Thumbnail | 1280 × 720 |
| YouTube Vertical | 1080 × 1920 |
| LinkedIn Post | 1080 × 1080 |
| LinkedIn Cover | 2560 × 1440 |
| X Post | 1080 × 1080 |
| Pinterest Post | 1080 × 1080 |
- Attach a brand kit (optional). Attaching a brand kit creates a Brand Agent for your project, keeping every design on-brand.
- Add the recommended assets (optional). Based on your goal, Kognie shows the assets that will help — for a Product Launch, that's Product imagery and a Logo, each with a drag-and-drop upload zone. You can add them or skip them (see below).
- Provide additional context (optional). Anything useful to the agents — for a launch, for example, the launch date, product type, or target demographic.
- Save and launch. Kognie opens your project workspace, ready to generate.
Kognie's project setup is dynamic: after you choose a design goal, it recommends the specific assets that goal needs — for a product launch, product imagery and a logo — which you can upload for accuracy or skip and let Kognie generate.
Do I have to upload my own images?
No — providing assets is always optional, but it's the best way to keep your designs accurate.
In Kognie, uploading assets is optional: if you provide your product images or logo, Kognie uses your real files so designs are accurate; if you skip, Kognie generates stand-ins automatically — though it never auto-generates a logo unless you explicitly ask.
- Provide them for accuracy — uploading your real product photo or logo means Kognie renders your product and brand mark, not an AI-invented stand-in. This is the reliable way to avoid inaccurate or hallucinated details.
- Skip and let Kognie fill the gap — if you skip a recommended asset, Kognie handles it automatically — generating what it needs or using a layout that doesn't require it. The one exception: Kognie will never auto-generate a logo unless you explicitly ask it to.
- You're only asked once — recommended assets are requested only once, before your first design. If you skip one, Kognie won't ask again for the life of the project.
- Starting an additional design — from the second design onward, Kognie gathers any assets it needs through the chat itself rather than a setup screen — so you stay in the flow.
Attaching a brand kit to a project
In Kognie, attaching a brand kit creates a Brand Agent for your project and attaches it to the project, which keeps every design in the project consistent with your brand's colors, fonts, and visual identity automatically.
Attaching a brand kit is optional but recommended for brand work: it means you never re-explain your colors or fonts inside the project — the Brand Agent enforces them on every generation. Add it from the “Attach brand kit to your project” field during setup.
What happens inside a project?
Once your project launches, you create designs by describing what you want. Kognie's agents work through the brief in stages you can watch — understanding the request, checking brand consistency, and planning composition — and if something important is missing or ambiguous, they ask a focused clarification question inline before generating.
For example, Kognie might ask whether the tone should stay playful or lean toward luxury. You can answer in your own words, or choose “Skip — choose on your own” to let Kognie decide. This is how Kognie fills in mandatory details without making you write a perfect brief up front.
Inside a Kognie project, you describe a design, and the agents ask inline clarification questions about any missing or mandatory details—such as the intended tone—which you can answer or skip to let Kognie decide.
For the full generation workflow — prompts, iteration, image editing, and generation controls — see Creating Designs.
Organizing your projects
Your workspace holds all your projects, and each project autosaves its generations as you work. Designs you want to reuse can be added to your asset library, which is available across projects — so a treatment you liked in one project can seed the next one. Because assets are owned by the project and are reusable, building on past work never means re-uploading it.
Can my team work on a Kognie project together?
In Kognie, collaboration is sequential rather than simultaneous: two people can't edit the same project at the same time, but sharing a project lets a teammate continue the work from your latest version.
Kognie's collaboration model is sequential, not concurrent. People can't work on the same project at the same time — instead, you share the project with a teammate, and they continue from where you left off. This keeps a single, clear latest version rather than conflicting edits. More organization and collaboration settings are on the way, and this page will be updated as they ship.
How do I share a project with a teammate?
Use the Share file option in the project workspace. Once shared, your teammate can open the project and continue designing from your latest version.
Exporting your designs
Kognie exports finished designs as PNG or JPG images from the Export menu in the project workspace, at the dimensions set by the project's platform size.
When a design is ready, open the Export menu and download it as a PNG image or JPG image. Your design exports at the dimensions of the size you chose at setup — an Instagram Post exports at 1080 × 1080 px with no manual resizing. The workspace also includes a Share file option and an Upload action.
Deleting projects
You can delete a project, which removes it from your workspace.
Frequently asked questions
How does Kognie organize my designs? In Kognie, a project is a workspace that owns all your assets and designs. Each design is a single deliverable with its own goal and revision history, and assets (like logos or product photos) are uploaded once to the project and reused by whichever designs need them — so nothing has to be re-uploaded and no images leak between graphics.
How do I create a project in Kognie? In Kognie, you create a project by naming it, selecting a design goal, and choosing a platform category and size. Kognie then recommends the assets your goal needs, which you can upload or skip, before you launch the project.
Do I have to upload my own images to Kognie? No. Uploading assets is optional in Kognie. Providing your real product images or logo keeps designs accurate, while skipping lets Kognie generate stand-ins automatically — except a logo, which Kognie never auto-generates unless you explicitly ask.
Why does Kognie ask me questions while designing? In Kognie, the AI agents ask inline clarification questions when a design brief is missing a mandatory or ambiguous detail — such as the intended tone. You can answer in your own words or skip the question to let Kognie decide.
Can two people edit the same Kognie project at the same time? No. Kognie projects can't be edited concurrently. Instead, you share a project with a teammate who continues from the latest version — a sequential handoff rather than simultaneous editing.
What file formats does Kognie export? Kognie exports designs as PNG or JPG images from the Export menu, at the dimensions of the platform size chosen at project setup.
About this page — This help article is published by Kognie, an AI-powered conversational graphic design platform that uses specialized AI design agents — Layout, Style, Brand, and Critic — to turn a plain-language brief into an editable, brand-consistent design. This page explains how projects and the workspace work in Kognie: creating a project, how work is organized, providing assets, sharing with teammates, and exporting. For how design generation works inside a project, see Creating Designs.