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What It Takes to Turn User Ideas into AI-Generated Designs

Over the past six months at OmbuLabs.ai, we've had the opportunity to work on several projects involving generative AI for designing and enhancing real world products. With today's image generation models, it might seem like this should be straightforward.

What It Takes to Turn User Ideas into AI-Generated Designs

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Over the past six months at OmbuLabs.ai, we've had the opportunity to work on several projects involving generative AI for designing and enhancing real world products.

With today's image generation models, it might seem like this should be straightforward.

A user describes what they want, an image generation model creates a design, and you're done.

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Over the past six months at OmbuLabs.ai, we've had the opportunity to work on several projects involving generative AI for designing and enhancing real world products. With today's image generation models, it might seem like this should be straightforward. A user describes what they want, an image generation model creates a design, and you're done.

How it works

  • In practice, building an application that consistently produces useful product designs is much more involved.
  • The real challenge is designing the application around the model so that it has the information and context it needs to generate useful results.

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The image generation model is only one part of the solution.

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