How AI is Reshaping the Interior Design Industry? SUAPP AI’s Practice and Outlook (opens in new tab)

Yesterday, I received a long private message of two thousand words in the backend. The sender is AI K, a loyal follower who has followed us for a long time. He is not only a seasoned interior designer with ten years of experience, but also a well-known AI tool reviewer in the industry. Ever since Midjourney’s early beta, he has been experimenting with it, and he has conducted in-depth stress tests on almost every notable AI tool in the design field. He said: “Recently, I’ve seen many peers feeling anxious, and many blindly following trends. Many practitioners find themselves caught in the trend of AI experimentation without a clear path to monetization or efficiency. Reading this article gave me a lot of food for thought. With Old K’s permission, today we’re sharing this insightful piece with everyone. When the tools step back, the design truly begins If you’re like me, constantly juggling between construction sites, presenting proposals, and revising designs, you must have felt this way: we spend far too much time on "production" and far too little on actual "design." Over the past 24 months, I have conducted extensive benchmarking of numerous AIGC solutions within the design sector. It was through a recent systemic workflow overhaul—fully integrating the SUAPP AI (suapp.ai) ecosystem—that the practical potential of "human-machine synergy" became evident. Today, let’s skip the fluff. I want to break down a four-stage comprehensive workflow I’m currently using—one that can genuinely deliver added value. Stage One: Preparation & Measuring (Pre-planning Phase) Workflow Revolution: Automating the Transition from Concept Sketches to Standardized CAD Drawings. Traditional pain point: Traditional site measurement remains a labor-intensive process, often requiring designers to manually sketch floor plans on-site while juggling measurement tools. This results in "unstructured data"—hand-drawn sketches that are often difficult to interpret. The subsequent phase in the office involves a time-consuming conversion process, where designers must manually translate these sketches into CAD environments, involving repetitive tasks such as line drawing, wall offsetting, and dimension labeling, which significantly extends the project lifecycle.