IDEA COACH: Using Generative AI and Mind Genomics Thinking to Drive Questions and Answers in Industrial Design

Abstract

Designers used to brainstorm product ideas from their own ingenuity and experiences. Today’s generative AI uses algorithms to create unique, cutting-edge designs, revolutionizing the design process. With generative AI, designers may enter criteria and limitations into algorithms to generate a variety of design possibilities. These ideas may combine old principles with new ones that the designer may not have previously considered. This paper presents a simple design issue at the earliest stages: a device which sits on the forehead and, upon demand, instantly translates text written in a foreign language either to speech or to text in one’s own language. Through this worked example, strictly using generative AI coupled with Mind Genomics thinking, the paper shows the range of what might be done in the very early design stages where the issue is conceptual, not physical.