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.
By Yifan Zhang, Nghi D. Q. Bui, Georgios Evangelopoulos, Arnaud Benard
arXiv:2608. 12611v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing screenshot-to-code systems face a trade-off between flexibility and controllability.
By Houston H. Zhang, Tao Zhang, Li Gu, Linfeng Ye, Yuanhao Yu, Xinxin Zuo, Yang Wang, Zhixiang Chi
The paper "Efficient Personalization of Generative User Interfaces" addresses the challenge of tailoring generative user interfaces (GenUIs) to individual users when interface screens are not pre‑defined. By collecting judgments from 20 participants on 600 GenUI pairs, the authors show low agreement (Krippendorff's alpha = 0.25) and diverse rationales for UI preferences. They propose a sample‑efficient personalization method that leverages a few pairwise judgments to weight prior users’ preferences, outperforming a pretrained UI evaluator and a larger multimodal model offline and outperforming all baselines in an online study with 12 new users.
"whyItMatters":"The study demonstrates a practical approach to personalizing on‑demand interfaces, showing that even sparse, subjective feedback can be effectively used to improve user satisfaction with generative UI designs."
By Yi-Hao Peng, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Jason Wu
arXiv:2602.17690v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Graphic design generation demands a delicate balance between high visual fidelity and fine-grained structural editability. However, existing...
By Ziyuan Liu, Shizhao Sun, Danqing Huang, Yingdong Shi, Meisheng Zhang, Ji Li, Jingsong Yu, Jiang Bian
arXiv:2603. 13312v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Interior design is a requirements-to-visual-plan generation process that must simultaneously satisfy verifiable spatial feasibility and comparative aesthetic preferences.
By Yuxuan Yang, Xiaotong Mao, Jingyao Wang, Fuchun Sun
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