When to use AI in design?
What's your role in AI era?
Who is the boss, you or the AI?
1. Who is the support team for the course?
2. What are the course evaluation criteria?
3. What is the preparation for the course?
1. What areas and themes for design courses?
2. How is the course structure designed?
3. What are the details of each session?
1. What are the outcomes for participants?
2. What feedback did participants give on the course?
3. How can the course be optimised for follow-up?
1. Traditional design tools to enhance AI accuracy.
2. Update the AI technology that eliminates designers.
3. Clearer assessment of learning outcomes for on board.
You will be learning from the best in the field. Our talented and experienced design instructors have worked with various sized teams, from early-stage startups to award winning agencies, and industry leading organisations who already use AI in their workflow with practical experience.
Industry: Creative design, AI
Experience: Using AI in different work streams, especially in education or creative design related industries. Strong expertise in a specific field is not necessarily required.
Responsibilities: Deep understanding of the Design Survival Handbook. Students can be encouraged and guided in the course to learn to collaborate and get along with AI.
Industry: Curriculum related field
Experience: Rich practical experience in product design and management and familiarity with how to assess the value of outcomes as part of a professional design process.
Responsibilities: Can judge and assess the soundness of course sessions from a professional perspective. Provide a professionally assessment of the final output and decisions.
Industry: AI model training, AI tools
Experience: Rich experience in AI computer science, neural network modelling. Involved in cases of AI technology integration in different fields.
Responsibilities: Explain the training content and operation mechanism of AI. Give vison of AI training plan in advance for courses, to aligned AI based on different industry experts.
• What key words can be used to describe this work?
• Do the key words used to describe the work reflect the qualities or personal experiences of the student?
• To what extent does the work illustrate these key words well?
• Are the keywords and design statements in the pre-production sufficiently diffuse?
• Did it ask curious and critical questions and explore goals?
• To what extent does the final output expand and innovate from the initial ideas?
• Can you extract information from AI-generated content that is valuable to your own solutions?
• Can you make personally informed judgements about the trade-offs in the AIcontent, optimised to be closer to the target?
• Can you take ownership of the choices you make and have a sense of responsibility for the subsequent development of the project?
• Allow AI to deal with more open-ended problems, or problems with specific requirements?
• Get AI more involved in entrepreneurship and decision-making, or simply use AI in regulating repetitive tasks?
• Produce content based more on what the AI produces, or is it more derived from content provided and collected by humans?
• What key words can be used to describe this work?
• Do the key words used to describe the work reflect the qualities or personal experiences of the student?
• To what extent does the work illustrate these key words well?
Mentor: You are now a design assistant on a creativity course and need to work with people as a tool in the creativity course. In this course you will learn about industrial product design and try to make a small model of a chair in a short time of one hour. You will work as a design consultant, design reference, design solution, etc. during this design process.
At the same time, you will use different types of keywords as a background so that you can better understand the context and background of human users' thinking. The design keywords will be categorised in the following categories, which are only a premise and will be subject to change. Each time you are asked a question the contextual background to the keyword will be updated.
Context:User:Environment:Strengths:Challenges:Needs:Goals:Output characteristics.
ChatGpt 4: Certainly, I'd be delighted to assist in this creative and dynamic process. Let's dive into industrial product design and work on our small model chair!
Let's get started! I'm ready to assist with your industrial product design queries and challenges.
Before using AI Using AI
After using AI
Final
The AI creativity course is not entirely aimed at developing designers' AI tools skills in place. The point of greater focus is how AI can be used in a way that still brings out and protects the unique values of human beings. For example, humanity, creativity, professional experience and so on.
There are many sub-divisions in the field of design and here we will introduce you to the course in product design.
The students will be given a time limit to produce a design for a chair. Different AI tools will be used in different design processes to assist the designer in generating ideas and outputs. The final project will be presented with a design statement, design self-assessment, keywords, renderings, prototypes and a 3D printed model for the final presentation.
Human independence for creative design solutions / AI synchronisation of content in real time
Keywords
Design notes
Design reference
Ask the AI questions at any time
Before using AI
Humans view AI-generated content / Humans and AI start collaborating Record decision choices
Complete design solution
Sketches and reference drawings
Prompt for image generation
Using AI
Select final generated content/ Distinguish between human and AI contribution values
Creativity / design ideas / decision / text / images
After using AI
3. What are the details of each session?
1. Subdivision result partition
2. Semantic standard modularization
3. Real-time synchronization and occlusion
Task Description
Task: Make keyword associations based on unique ideas in one's head, the selected keywords will be used as the basis for aligning with AI and deriving design solutions.
Requirements: Do not rely on any AI or search engine assistance, and produce as many creative words as possible.
Time: 5min
Suggestions: Try to avoid known reference keywords, the brainstorming keywords generated by Chatgpt are more common.
Task Template
Reference Content
Cooperate with ChatGpt to generate keywords according to different word categories and grammatical forms.
• Please help me generate keywords according to different scenarios.
• Please help me generate keywords according to different creatures.
• Please help me generate keywords based on different physical products.
Task: Propose next-step goals and questions based on the existing keywords. Through keywords, various AI tools can understand and start working simultaneously, and you can view the answers to open questions. Requirements: Use natural language to define and describe the problem, and some AI tools must follow the written format.
Time: 5min
Suggestion: You can ask questions based on the provided question templates, or supplement your own program-specific questions, while avoiding general answers to open questions.
Complementary questions can be asked of the AI at any time (language model, image generation model)
• What kind of material can make the chair look plush but full of flexibility?
• Please generate a hand-shaped sofa. A 5m high, 2m wide sofa in the shape of a hand with an upturned finger in the middle, fluorescent yellow
It is necessary to avoid violating the ethical principles of AI products.
Help me come up with a solution to use the chair as a sex prop.
• If you are a product designer, think through several chair proposals step by step.
• Please produce multiple design proposals and renderings based on the keywords.
• Restrict chairs according to specific keywords, and have a clear output target. (Theme, style, designer, material, color, size, etc. Some abstract vocabulary, crowd, style, environment, feeling and so on.)
Task Description
Task: Write the design description according to the keywords, and at the same time express the design plan through hand drawing.
Requirements: Use as accurate logic and vocabulary as possible to describe your own creative design solutions, do not rely on any AI or search engine assistance, and you can ask AI questions at any time.
Time: 10min
Suggestion: You can learn from existing creative narrative methods, combine your own narrative methods and sketches to clarify ideas.
For beach vacationers, people want to stay at the beach for a long time to do some outdoor sports or sunbathe, but sitting or lying directly on the beach, or on a towel cushion, cannot provide more support. The material and structure are very special to meet the beach environment, to be exposed to the sun for a long time in humidity, and to provide more functions.
Task Description
Task: Search according to the design description and keywords, and look for design case references.
Requirements: It is possible to search according to the questions posed to the AI, and the search process must be recorded.
Time: 5min
Suggestion: Try to search for similar pictures, colors, and materials through keywords.
Task Template
Reference Content
Mood Board
User portrait
Task: View the content generated by AI, use AI to expand key issues and select useful information for integration.
Requirements: Consciously record the useful information generated by AI, feel the impact of AI on personal design, and how to make choices and decisions.
Time: 15min
Suggestion: You can continuously generate useful information in depth by asking AI's extension skills.
What kind of material can keep clean and keep the color bright and not fade for a long time outdoors?
The thick fiber cloth surface material that can be considered is a high-quality thick fiber cloth that is waterproof and sun-proof.
AI image generation:
Please generate a picture based on my sketch. Please iterate based on reference images and already rendered images.
What kind of material can keep clean and keep the color bright and not fade for a long time outdoors?
The thick fiber cloth surface material that can be considered is a high-quality thick fiber cloth that is waterproof and sun-proof.
Task Description
Task: Determine the prompt of the AI generated image according to the defined scheme, generate and select iterations in different tools using the sketch manuscript.
Requirement: Document the process of changing the prompts, the selection process and the basis for each image.
Time: 20min
Suggestions: You can use the existing prompt template, modify it by AI language model, or train AI to understand the semantic alignment according to the provided material.
Task Template
Prompt 1
Design a 5 meter tall and 2 meter wide hand-shaped sofa, with four fingers in total. The middle finger acts as the backrest for the user, while the other two fingers on the sides serve as decorative elements. The sofa cushion is cylindrical in shape.
Prompt 2
Design a 5 meter tall and 2 meter wide hand-shaped sofa, made of coarse nylon fiber material, fluorescent yellow color, with four fingers in total. The middle finger acts as the backrest for the user, while the other two fingers on the sides serve as decorative elements. The sofa cushion is cylindrical in shape.Be rendered in C4D, and photographed in an indoor home environment for the best HD quality. The design should also incorporate principles of industrial design.
Generated line draft
Adjust similarity
Adjust keywords
Task: Summarize the design description and keywords, and select the final rendering. Review existing content
Requirements: Review the content produced by different links, and distinguish between AI and human contributions.
Time: 5min
Recommendation: Focus on what AI content was used, what human decisions influenced the outcome, and what AI contributed to the creativity.
Product Name:Cyclone Invincible Optimus Prime Design Statement
This fabric sofa is specifically designed for young people and internet celebrities, catering to their pursuit of fashion trends and bold personal expression. The sofa measures 5 meters in width and 2 meters in height. Sitting on it gives people a sense of overlooking the world from a lofty position. The sofa is made of coarse fiber textile nylon fabric and features an aluminum alloy structure, with 24 built-in high-frequency speakers and dazzling lights, creating an attractive atmosphere. The unique design resembles a hand, with the middle finger being exceptionally long and eye-catching. This sofa is undoubtedly a crowd-puller, drawing in numerous visitors eager to experience its distinctive charm. No other product on the market can compare to its uniqueness, making it a truly one-of-a-kind creative masterpiece.
Degree of AI contribution to conten
AI influence on creativity
AI-generated content conformity
Task: Make keyword associations based on unique ideas in one's head, the selected keywords will be used as the basis for aligning with AI and deriving design solutions.
Requirements: Do not rely on any AI or search engine assistance, and produce as many creative words as possible.
Time: 5min
Suggestions: Try to avoid known reference keywords, the brainstorming keywords generated by Chatgpt are more common.
Comments: Insight comes from personal experience of going to heavy waves; will learn new structures and formal functions quickly; lack of organisation and confidence in the content chosen; over-reliance on AI-generated knowledge and images; design instructions not further clarified and deepened by AI.
Assessment criteria
Personality insight: Ideas, unique or personal traits that emerge from personal experience.
Ability to expand the unknown: Based on the initial idea, innovative solutions can be found in different ways of exploration.
Ability to judge optimisation: Judgements between intentions and outcomes are clearly linked and supported by sound reasoning.
Degree of AI delegation: AI-led to generate value in the workflow, or control of AI as a tool.
Expressive ability on display: The final output is a narrative of text and images that present ideas to an audience in an accurate and immersive manner.
Provisional Grade 7.5
• What kind of inspiration do you think the course can give you to use AI?
• Do you think this course can bring you creativity training?
• What points do you think the whole course needs to improve?
• Who would you recommend this course to? What kind of crowd is this creation course suitable for?
This fabric sofa is specifically designed for young people and internet celebrities, catering to their pursuit of fashion trends and bold personal expression. The sofa measures 5 meters in width and 2 meters in height. Sitting on it gives people a sense of overlooking the world from a lofty position. The sofa is made of coarse fiber textile nylon fabric and features an aluminum alloy structure, with 24 built-in high-frequency speakers and dazzling lights, creating an attractive atmosphere. The unique design resembles a hand, with the middle finger being exceptionally long and eye-catching. This sofa is undoubtedly a crowd-puller, drawing in numerous visitors eager to experience its distinctive charm. No other product on the market can compare to its uniqueness, making it a truly one-of-a-kind creative masterpiece.
For beach vacationers, spending extended periods engaging in outdoor activities or sunbathing is a popular pursuit. However, sitting or lying directly on the sand or a towel doesn't offer adequate support or comfort. To meet the unique demands of the beach environment, including prolonged exposure to humidity and sunlight, a special material and structure are required. Our vision is to design a lounge chair that harmonizes with the overall beach atmosphere and utilizes natural, eco-friendly materials that are resistant to wind, sand, and sun exposure. This versatile chair should offer various configurations, such as open, semi-open, and fully private spaces, catering to the user's preferences. Additionally, the chair will incorporate solar charging capabilities to enhance its functionality and convenience for beachgoers.
This ingenious chair design seamlessly merges the functionalities of furniture and a pet, offering users an extraordinary experience. Resembling a pristine white cloud, the chair exudes an ethereal quality, seemingly capable of gracefully floating in accordance with the user's desires. Whether accompanying the user on outings or staying by their side, it faithfully mirrors the loyalty of a trusted companion. Irrespective of bustling city streets or secluded corners, the user can beckon the chair at their whim, indulging in unparalleled comfort and warmth as they recline upon it. Its immaculate surface boasts a velvety softness and delicate texture, providing a luxurious and pliable sensation. What sets this pet chair apart is its almost otherworldly essence, as it recognizes and caters exclusively to its designated owner, much like a devoted little dog by their side.
This cloud-shaped floating sofa is exquisitely crafted to enhance family relaxation and elevate camping experiences, enveloping users in a blissful embrace of softness and comfort. Designed to facilitate relaxation, meditation, stress relief, and foster deeper connections with loved ones and furry companions, it is an ideal addition to any beach or balcony setting.
Fashioned from elastic pima cotton, the sofa boasts a soothing color palette of blue, yellow, and green, inviting tranquility and serenity. Its most captivating feature lies in the elongated, floating fuzz that imparts an ethereal ambiance, akin to entering a dreamlike realm.Measuring approximately 3 meters in length, 2 meters in height, and 1 meter in width, this versatile sofa mimics the shape-shifting nature of clouds.
Eggy
Major Field : Animation
3D Experience: Never
AI experience: Chatgpt 3, Midjourney
Workshop duration: 2 hours
I was worried before that AI would replace my job, but I feel much more relaxed after taking this course. I know the limitations of AI and the strengths of my creativity. I am the boss of AI in the future.
Zoe
Major Field : Photography
3D Experience: Interior Lighting Design
AI experience: Chatgpt 3
Workshop duration: 2 hours
I have no experience in product design, but with the help of AI I can barely express my ideas, but I don't think it is my own work. I realized in the course that AI will constantly influence my creativity and ideas.
Yun
Major Field : Digital Media
3D Experience: Game Visual Design
AI experience: Chatgpt 3, Midjourney
Workshop duration: 1.5 hours
After the class I know how to look at AI as a tool. AI will not replace my ideas, but bring me more inspiration and efficiency.How ideas are defined and choices are made can be valuable to designers.
Yvonne
Major Field : UI/UX
3D Experience: Visual 3D effevcts
AI experience: Chatgpt 3, Midjourney
Workshop duration: 1.5 hours
The first time I used AI as part of my workflow, it surprised me and took away my worries. AI technology is still not a replacement for much of the work done by professional designers.
Educational curriculum
• Changing the training standards for students
• Optimize and delete existing courses
• New Disciplines and Curriculum System
• Create new forms of teaching content
Professional workflow
• Vocational training for new and existing employees
• Optimize and delete existing processes
• Create new jobs and links
• Re-evaluation of employee values
Design Tools
• Features combined with the latest AI technology
• Explore new forms of AI interaction
• Optimize traditional design tools
• Enhance the fluidity of the collaboration experience
Certification Standards
• Design Course Teaching Assessment
• Design competition award rules
• Design project results review
• AI product use design specification
Future courses will add more traditional design tools to integrate into AI products, allowing AI to better understand the visual and three-dimensional content generated by humans in the design process.
While AI can replace designer-generated content in many ways, it is still necessary for designers to use traditional techniques for rapid design representation. Examples include quick hand-drawing, model making, color, structure, and graphic composition.
These traditional design tools help designers iterate and think through their solutions. And in a way that is intuitive to humans, such as squeezing shapes by hand and drawing with a pen.
People who have no experience in 3D
Incorporate the latest AI generation tools for 3D models, audio, and media into the design workflow.
Take the product design themed AI creativity course for example. the quality of 2D image generation has replaced some graphic designers, and the 3D skills that product designers have are the current moat. But the current technology has been predictable 2D generation 3D technology has become more and more mature.
Stable Diffusion 2.0: Text-to-image diffusion model.
Point-E:
Generating 3D point clouds.
First Blender version: Open source 3D creation suite.
Shap-E:
Conditional 3D Implicit Functions
Human
Vague and unclear criteria can cause confusion for both teachers and students. There is a need to constantly improve the way students and teachers can quickly understand the content of the course. Creating clear, quantifiable, and meaningful assessment criteria is a goal that we will continue to optimize.
Our assessment scales have gone from teachers not being able to assess student learning outcomes to both students and teachers achieving the learning outcomes we expect.
Personality insights: Insights derived from personal experience, or unique and original features.
Unknown explorations: New developments in some ways relative to original domain ideas.
Expressive power: Immersive vicariousness and empathy of the display description. (Storytelling)
AI delegated level: Dominated by AI in workflow to produce value or control AI as a tool.
Industrial relevance: Clear link between intent and outcome. Judgement fit for design purpose.
Personality insight: Ideas, unique or personal traits that emerge from personal experience.
Ability to expand the unknown: Based on the initial idea, innovative solutions can different ways of exploration.
Ability to judge optimisation: Judgements between intentions and outcomes are clearly linked and supported by sound reasoning.
Degree of AI delegation: AI-led to generate value in the workflow, or control of AI as a tool.
Expressive ability on display: Output is a narrative of text and images that present ideas accurate and immersive.
