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Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have created new opportunities for incorporating AI into creative activities. Consequently, AI has become an increasingly significant tool in the design process, changing traditional workflows. This paper explores AI's role as both a co-creator and a design material, focusing on its impact on the ideation and evaluation stages of the design process. Through a transdisciplinary literature review, this study reveals that AI enhances creativity by providing inspirational stimuli, and supports evaluation and decision-making. However, it also introduces complexities such as cognitive overload and dependency. This paper emphasizes the need for design education reform, and training students as Designer Arbiters and Integrators to effectively collaborate with AI in a rapidly evolving technological landscape.
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Design Studies is a leading international academic journal focused on developing understanding of design processes. It studies design activity across all domains of application, including engineering and product design, architectural and urban design, computer artefacts and systems design. It therefore provides an interdisciplinary forum for the analysis, development and discussion of fundamental aspects of design activity, from cognition and methodology to values and philosophy.
Design Studies publishes work that is concerned with the process of designing, and is relevant to a broad audience of researchers, teachers and practitioners. We welcome original, scientific and scholarly research papers reporting studies concerned with the process of designing in all its many fields, or furthering the development and application of new knowledge relating to design process. Papers should be written to be intelligible and pertinent to a wide range of readership across different design domains. To be relevant for this journal, a paper has to offer something that gives new insight into or knowledge about the design process, or assists new development of the processes of designing.
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