AI-based generative design is the ultimate collaborator

Whether you’re designing automotive parts to create lighter, more fuel-efficient cars or creating office-space layouts that help foster employee interaction, generative design is the ideal cocreation partner. It helps solve complex architecture, engineering, and product-design problems faster; creates multiple design options; and doesn’t hog the office snacks.

But does it hog all the work? Not at all. Although generative-design software can pump out more design options than a designer or engineer can manually create in the same amount of time—thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) and unlimited cloud-computing power—it can also automate many routine tasks. And that leaves designers with more time for the fun stuff: exploring more creative outcomes, making decisions regarding style and aesthetics, and evaluating how people will experience the new product or environment.

When humans and machines create together, the outcome is greater than what either could achieve alone. In the infographic below, learn more about generative design—how it works, how it’s used today, and how it’s changing the world of design.