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

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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