arXiv AI

Enabling Creative Exploration for Vibe Design Agents

The paper introduces a new inference architecture for vibe design agents that separates design exploration from implementation. By generating structured design specifications with typicality scores and selecting one for downstream generation, the method allows users to explore coherent UI alternatives without altering the underlying generation settings. Experiments on UI themes and visual-asset prompts show increased selection coverage and screenshot variation, with mixed preferences from an LLM judge and modest operational costs in a large online test.

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 4

Editable Visual Design

Editable Visual Design introduces a new design paradigm that combines a Coding Agent with a Vision‑Language Model (VLM) and an image generation model. The VLM acts as the creative brain, understanding requirements, planning tasks, and judging aesthetics, while the image generator produces isolated visual assets on demand. The agent follows an "imagine first, then act" workflow, generating assets, writing native HTML/CSS, and refining the design through visual feedback, ultimately producing editable, layer‑wise artifacts with real text that can be adjusted via a graphical interface.

By Junyan Ye, Wei Liu, Dongzhi Jiang, Zichen Wen, HaoDong Li, Zhutao Lv, Jiaxin Lin, Jinhua Yu, Jun He, Zilong Huang, Rui Chen, Weijia Li
arXiv Computation and Language
1d ago

EvoDesign: Agentic Editable Diagram Creation via Design Expertise Evolution

EvoDesign is an agentic framework that enables editable diagram creation by constructing a diagram manifest through coordinated structure, style, and layout agents, then rendering it in a diagnostic verification environment that provides defect signals and VLM-based critique. The system uses an evolution mechanism to distill refinement traces into a three-tier design expertise memory, promoting strategies only with repeated cross-context support. CanvasBench, a new benchmark and evaluation protocol, assesses content, visual, and cognitive dimensions, and experiments show EvoDesign achieves a strong balance across content fidelity, visual organization, and cognitive usability compared to pixel, code-based, agentic, one-shot schema, and canvas-native methods.

By Tianfu Wang, Leilei Ding, Ziyang Tao, Yi Zhan, Zhiyuan Ma, Wei Wu, Yuxuan Lei, Junyang Wang, Yizhao Xu, Yin WU, Zhengyu Hu, Hongyuan Zhu, Nicholas Jing Yuan, Yanyong Zhang, Hui Xiong
arXiv AI
Oct 9

Design Creativity Bench: Measuring creativity in LLM-Generated UI

The paper introduces Design Creativity Bench, a benchmark for evaluating creativity in large language model (LLM)-generated user interface (UI) designs. It measures originality (distinctiveness among models on the same prompt), creative range (how designs vary across prompts for the same UI goal), and appropriateness (how many brief criteria each design meets). Results show LLMs produce designs that are generally appropriate but far less original and varied than human designs, indicating a need for stronger measures to address this limitation.

By Aman Rusia, Abhijit Bhole, Prashank Gupta, Dipanjan Dey
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Oct 8

Design Creativity Bench: Measuring creativity in LLM-Generated UI

Design Creativity Bench is a new benchmark that evaluates the diversity and appropriateness of UI designs generated by large language models (LLMs). It measures originality (distinctiveness among models on the same prompt), creative range (how much designs change between prompts for the same UI goal), and appropriateness (how many brief criteria each design meets). The benchmark shows that LLMs produce designs that are far less original and less varied than human designs, though they are generally appropriate.

arXiv AI
Oct 15

AesCode: Aesthetic Code Generation with Decoupled Cross-Modal Rewards

arXiv:2610.18860v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating information-rich visual artifacts such as slides, posters, and dashboards as code is appealing because the outputs are structured, editable,...

By Xin Gao, Yifan Yang, Xin Li, Pan Wang, Yan Li, Muzhao Tian, Mingxi Cheng, Bei Liu, Kai Qiu, Qi Dai, Dong Chen, Yue Dong, Leandros Tassiulas, Rex Ying, Ji Li, Chong Luo