Abstract
Creating graphic designs can be challenging for novice users.
This paper presents DesignScape, a system which aids the
design process by making interactive layout suggestions, i.e.,
changes in the position, scale, and alignment of elements.
The system uses two distinct but complementary types of
suggestions: refinement suggestions, which improve the current
layout, and brainstorming suggestions, which change the
style. We investigate two interfaces for interacting with suggestions.
First, we develop a suggestive interface, where suggestions
are previewed and can be accepted. Second, we develop
an adaptive interface where elements move automatically
to improve the layout. We compare both interfaces with
a baseline without suggestions, and show that for novice designers,
both interfaces produce significantly better layouts,
as evaluated by other novices.
Paper
Peter O'Donovan, Aseem Agarwala, Aaron Hertzmann.
DesignScape: Design with Interactive Layout Suggestions Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15).
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Acknowledgements
Thanks to John Hancock and Ingrid Varga for their technical support. This research is supported in part by
Adobe,
NSERC,and
Microsoft.
