Tech x Design | AI & Design school exercises

As a design student I was sometimes presented with exercises where we where to pull two or tree random words. These words would then shape the exercise. Example could be brand A x product B or product A visualized in medium B.

Today I used chatGPT to help me make three lists.

• interior products
• material
• style

At design school the options might have been pieces of paper in three different bowls. Today I just asked chatGPT to write me a simple codePen that would autopick one random value from each list and display them on a canvas.

Three copy-paste later and I had a somewhat working codepen.

I then did some human work by writing a prompt sentence with typos and everything.

And from the prompt a colorful beanbag with contrasting colors did appear.

So an entire design process done. Setting up the frame by randomly picking the parameters to generating the outcome. It was a fun and very quick project — but I don’t think it makes sense to use tech in this way. You are litterly just generating random stuff.

However if you split the process up in two it can be useful.
1. Use AI to help you create your own design exercise generator to help you train your sketching or 3d modelling skills.

2. Use AI as a quick way to visualize a concept by describing it using different parameters to help guide the visualizations.