AI For Designers

To incorporate artificial intelligence
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into design education, we introduce a design-oriented framework that combines taxonomies from various domains to create knowledge addressing both, design students and teachers.

The framework includes the following components:

The definition of a design model consisting of 6 design stages.

To integrate the new knowledge into the educational environment and support teachers and students in integrating AI during the design practice, we defined a new design model based on six stages: Understand, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Develop, and Release.

The definition of these stages takes into account the reference models produced by academic institutions, professional organisations and design practices, such as the Double Diamond model (IDEO, 2009, 2012, 2015) and the Design Thinking model proposed by Ideo (Design Council, n.d., 2021).

Design stages

Definition

Understand

Investigate the context, target groups, and stakeholders through research to explore, discover and analyse needs, barriers, attitudes, and aspirations

Define

Gather insights from the research to frame key findings to outline specific design opportunities and challenges

Ideate

Generate ideas for new design solutions in response to opportunities and challenges

Prototype

Transforming ideas into a concrete solution, making samples for use, observation, and evaluation in their context

Develop

Shaping in detail the final solution after appropriate refinements and testing

Release

Communicate, distribute, publish, and make open solutions and outputs available to the target groups, stakeholders, as well as the whole society

AI For Designers

To incorporate artificial intelligence {} into design education, we introduce a design-oriented framework that combines taxonomies from various domains to create knowledge addressing both, design students and teachers.

The definition of a design model consisting of 6 design stages.

To incorporate artificial intelligence
{
}
into design education, we introduce a design-oriented framework that combines taxonomies from various domains to create knowledge addressing both, design students and teachers.