DesignWeaver helps novice designers create better product concepts by automatically extracting design dimensions from AI-generated images into an interactive palette.

Formative study with 12 experienced product designers revealed that visual references, not written descriptions, are the primary way experts guide design discussions

DesignWeaver interface allows novices to generate text-to-image model prompts by selecting key product design dimensions from a palette of generated images

Testing with 52 novices showed the tool enabled longer, more domain-specific prompts that resulted in more diverse and innovative product designs