Design Sparks
Free!
Generate and browse design ideas on the web.
Design Sparks is an AI-based web-app developed by The National Centre for Creativity enabled by AI (CebAI) that uses well-established creative problem solving techniques alongside AI to generate design ideas. Users can input design problems or ideas into the app by typing, pasting a link, or uploading a PDF. The AI generates sparks, or design ideas, which users can save and browse through for later use. Users can focus their idea generation by clicking on extracted topics, ask the AI to generate more ideas based on a specific spark, or adjust topic settings to analyze rare, common, or random themes. The app allows users to choose a creative problem-solving technique to generate sparks based on.Design Sparks distinguishes itself from chatbots like ChatGPT with its interactive creativity prompts, curated knowledge, and insights components. The web-app was developed to increase workforce creativity and improve productivity, competitiveness, and critical thinking. It was funded by Research England, with contributions from City, University of London, and over 20 industrial partners to the value of £7.6m. The project is designed to be self-funding through licensing and consultancy services after the grant ends in 2024. Design Sparks is a valuable tool for service, product, UX/UI designers, and stakeholders to bounce around ideas, explore new perspectives, and possibilities.
- Generates design ideas
- Inputs: typing, links, PDF
- Saves ideas for later
- Adjusts theme exploration settings
- Selectable idea generation methods
- Infinite idea generation
- Automatic idea generation
- Better creativity prompts than ChatGPT
- Curated knowledge components
- Insights components
- Encourages co-creation of solutions
- Broad input options
- Customizable creativity method
- Established problem solving techniques
- Exploration of new perspectives
- Tailored responses to design problems
- Save and reuse ideas
- Refresh for new ideas
- Co-developed with prestigious partners
- Focus on workforce creativity
- Designed for self-funding
- Increases productivity and competitiveness
- Enhances critical thinking
- Serves various design roles
- Extracted topics for focussed ideas
- Benefit of 20+ industrial partner insights
- £7.6m research based development
- Large-scale project undertaking
- Developed for UX/UI designers
- Developed for stakeholders
- Critical thinking stimulation
- Browser remember saved ideas
- Option to generate more ideas
- Look at rare, common, random themes
- Prompt problem-solving technique choice
- Hard refresh for fresh ideas
- Interactive creativity element
- Insightful tool built-ins
- Challenges users with new solutions
- Long-term project lifecycle
- Quality ensured by high-profile investment
- Aids with increased workforce creativity
- Improves productivity
- Promotes competitiveness
- Streamlines creativity process
- Accessible and user-friendly web-app
- No mobile application
- No real-time collaboration
- No API Integration
- Can't share sparks publicly
- Unclear about data security
- No user community
- Limited customer support hours
- Dependent on grant funding
- No multilingual support
- No training resources
Specification: Design Sparks
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