Reviving Reflection-in-Action: Instilling Designerly Thinking in AI-Supported Ideation through Multimodal Prompting (opens in new tab)

Current AI-powered creativity support tools (AI-CSTs) primarily use text prompting to generate solution-oriented outputs. However, the potential value of multimodal prompting in designer-AI interaction, specifically the introduction of productive friction to encourage iteration and reflection, has not been fully explored. To address this, we developed SketchifAI, a prototype AI-CST, and evaluated it with design students. In a mixed-methods, with...