Human-human collaboration enhanced with emerging technologies of AI

Co-creation sessions have traditionally relied on low-fidelity, analogue tools and paper-based approaches, which can limit the speed, depth, and complexity of the design process. However, by leveraging emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), designers can improve collaboration with clients and facilitate more efficient design processes. We are interested in how AI tools can be operationalized in the design process and how they can facilitate collaboration between designers and clients. To address these challenges, we propose a human-centred AI collaboration tool called Visul, which bridges the gap between emerging technologies and co-ideation and co-creation sessions. Visul acts as an intelligent intermediary, increasing creativity and understanding without overshadowing the human participants. Our solution addresses three design challenges: (i) Facilitating the design process through AI automation, while allowing users to manifest control and creativity, (ii) Providing inspiration for exploration, and enabling iterative design processes, and (iii) Assisting in requirement understanding and definition while adapting interaction behaviour to improve collaboration. By using speech-to-text and text-to-image AI models, Visul, visually creates, a new way of design ideation and more effective human collaboration. With our tool, designers can achieve more efficient and productive collaboration, leading to enhanced value creation for clients.