Merging Creativity with Computation in Sketch-to-Code Transitions

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been an active research area for a long time, but its adoption as a mainstream technology in the creative/design space is a relatively new phenomenon. Much of the research has been directed into creating systems capable of performing tasks, and while many powerful systems and applications have emerged, the user experience has not kept pace. In applications of AI systems to the design process, there has been a general lack of focus on the designers creativity. Most of the current approaches focus on the use of Artificial Intelligence to replace the repetitive work in the design process while ignoring the subversive changes in thinking and methodology that AI can bring to designers’ as end users. This dissertation work explores the opportunities for AI to bring radical changes in human experiences during the design and creative processes. Our most recent work focuses on the application of sketch-to-code algorithms and their adaptation to assist designers’ creative ability and provide new approaches to augment design cognition.