AI x Design: The GRAPHIC Framework for Better Co-Creation

Kari Jaaskelainen

24 Nov 2025 — 1 min read

AI + Designers: A Better Way to Co-Create

AI is entering graphic design studios, not to replace designers, but to collaborate with them. A new review by Joana Rovira Martins, Pedro Martins, and Ana Boavida scans 872 papers and zooms in on 68 AI systems used in graphic design.

The result: GRAPHIC, a clear framework to evaluate how well these tools support human-AI teamwork across three lenses:

Collaborative Panorama: Who leads, who follows, and how control shifts.
Processes & Modalities: From sketch, text, and image to feedback loops.
Graphic Design Principles: Composition, typography, color, and more.

What's missing today?

Better balance of initiative between humans and AI.
Transparent, explainable interactions, not black boxes.
Tools that don't just iterate, but enable transformational creativity grounded in design fundamentals.

Design teams and toolmakers can use GRAPHIC to build co-creative systems that are rigorous, expressive, and genuinely helpful. Read more: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17443v1

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17443v1

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