Lopes Daniel, Correia João, Machado Penousal
Department of Informatics Engineering, Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra, University of Coimbra, 3004-531 Coimbra, Portugal.
Intelligent Systems Associate LAboratory (LASI), University of Minho, 4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal.
Entropy (Basel). 2022 Nov 30;24(12):1751. doi: 10.3390/e24121751.
Frequently, one of the goals of Graphic Design (gd) is discovering disruptive visual solutions that stand out and attract people's attention. However, due to the increasing democratisation of gd, graphic designers tend to adopt design trends, leading to designs that many times lack innovative and catchy features. is an evolutionary extension for that aims to aid gd processes by automatically evolving layout and style variations of given pages. The generated pages might be previously created and post-edited by designers, promoting co-creation. As an extension of the study , this article begins with a general introduction of . Then, we review previous experiments on evolving pages towards the page balance of existing target posters. Furthermore, we present new experiments exploring the benefits of using grid systems to position and scale page items along with a user survey made to gather feedback about the impact of grid systems in the generated pages and showcase examples of artefacts created from the collaboration between designers and the system. The findings indicate that the presented techniques can be used to interpret current layouts in different manners, and suggest that grid systems may be a useful tool for promoting the automatic production of layouts with better organisation when compared to applying no organisational constraints. However, a conducted user survey indicates that, depending on the goals of the designers, more organised layouts might not always be synonymous with better results.
通常，平面设计（gd）的目标之一是发现具有颠覆性的视觉解决方案，使其脱颖而出并吸引人们的注意力。然而，由于平面设计的日益普及，平面设计师往往采用设计潮流，导致许多设计缺乏创新和吸引人的特点。是 的一种进化扩展，旨在通过自动演化给定页面的布局和样式变体来辅助平面设计流程。生成的页面可能是设计师之前创建并进行后期编辑的，从而促进共同创作。作为该研究的延伸，本文首先对进行了总体介绍。然后，我们回顾了之前关于朝着现有目标海报的页面平衡演化页面的实验。此外，我们展示了新的实验，探讨使用网格系统来定位和缩放页面元素的好处，同时进行了一项用户调查，以收集关于网格系统对生成页面影响的反馈，并展示设计师与系统协作产生的人工制品示例。研究结果表明，所提出的技术可用于以不同方式解释当前布局，并表明与不应用组织约束相比，网格系统可能是促进自动生成具有更好组织性布局的有用工具。然而，一项进行的用户调查表明，根据设计师的目标，更具组织性的布局并不总是等同于更好的结果。
