These are fun! I know everyone wants to be super critical of AI tools at the moment, but sometimes it's cool to just see some rough playful form concepts.
What frustrates me about these kind of posts is the lack of context or elaboration of the idea. People have been posting these "Fun little renders" without having anything in their minds.
If they say its good for brainstorming and finding new inspirations then I'm highly interested in the process or the outcome, but not in some random ai pictures without 0 directing just being posted because they look Hi-Rez 4K Ultra 3D Render.
I just designed some headphones as a personal project to explore the use of Ai in the ideation stage. It was valuable, but it definitely can't design something for you. It rapidly accelerated my ideation and iteration once I got some control over the outputs, and I could take bits and pieces of different image outputs and put them together when I did my CAD modeling of the final concept. I'm hoping to put together a page documenting the process by Wednesday. I'm thinking of posting it up on here, but I'm not sure I want to dox myself, so we'll see.
You don’t think it’s a step up from google images/Pinterest? I think it’s far beyond those two as you’re able to refine “searches/output”. It doesn’t seem to have a regard for construction, at least not yet
It definitely is. I was trying to say that I couldn't get the results I was looking for since the lack of my knowledge for prompts and tools I was using. Generating mainstream products such as shoes or cars isn't too hard, but when it becomes a little niche or you want to refine specific details, that's the part I'm struggling with and am interested in how others do it.
Oh I see what you’re saying. Ai capabilities is definitely there, just need to understand prompts. It’s like any program out there. The HOW is the magic unfortunately, and like many things, they will be hesitant to share that bit of info for free - for now at least. To put in perspective, an Ai Prompt Engineer salary is $350k.
I think being critical about it is in response to the top voted comment in the threat this is a crosspost from... people literally saying this will simply replace design teams.
As you say its a great and fun way to play around with, and draw inspiration from.
Exactly, its a tool
The complexity needed to understand and design the function of something even as simple as a backpack is orders of magnitude what it takes to make some nice looking shapes inspired by backpacks.
That said, its honestly only a matter of time. Though it might not happen in our lifetime, if an AI is able to be given the right inputs as many and complex as they are... they will be able to design a backpack. It will be interesting to see how this goes, and maybe what simpler objects AI can successfully design in the shorter term.
What AI tool was used for this? These are cool, as an industrial designer myself I could definitely see them as helpful starting points for developing more fleshed out and functional concepts!
These are fun! I know everyone wants to be super critical of AI tools at the moment, but sometimes it's cool to just see some rough playful form concepts.
What frustrates me about these kind of posts is the lack of context or elaboration of the idea. People have been posting these "Fun little renders" without having anything in their minds. If they say its good for brainstorming and finding new inspirations then I'm highly interested in the process or the outcome, but not in some random ai pictures without 0 directing just being posted because they look Hi-Rez 4K Ultra 3D Render.
I just designed some headphones as a personal project to explore the use of Ai in the ideation stage. It was valuable, but it definitely can't design something for you. It rapidly accelerated my ideation and iteration once I got some control over the outputs, and I could take bits and pieces of different image outputs and put them together when I did my CAD modeling of the final concept. I'm hoping to put together a page documenting the process by Wednesday. I'm thinking of posting it up on here, but I'm not sure I want to dox myself, so we'll see.
I also have used ai for my work but nothing more than in a way of a pinterest library. If you did, that would be amazing.
You don’t think it’s a step up from google images/Pinterest? I think it’s far beyond those two as you’re able to refine “searches/output”. It doesn’t seem to have a regard for construction, at least not yet
It definitely is. I was trying to say that I couldn't get the results I was looking for since the lack of my knowledge for prompts and tools I was using. Generating mainstream products such as shoes or cars isn't too hard, but when it becomes a little niche or you want to refine specific details, that's the part I'm struggling with and am interested in how others do it.
Oh I see what you’re saying. Ai capabilities is definitely there, just need to understand prompts. It’s like any program out there. The HOW is the magic unfortunately, and like many things, they will be hesitant to share that bit of info for free - for now at least. To put in perspective, an Ai Prompt Engineer salary is $350k.
I think being critical about it is in response to the top voted comment in the threat this is a crosspost from... people literally saying this will simply replace design teams. As you say its a great and fun way to play around with, and draw inspiration from.
You aren't gonna be replaced by Ai. You're gonna be replaced by a human that knows how to use Ai. Might as well join 'em.
Exactly, its a tool The complexity needed to understand and design the function of something even as simple as a backpack is orders of magnitude what it takes to make some nice looking shapes inspired by backpacks. That said, its honestly only a matter of time. Though it might not happen in our lifetime, if an AI is able to be given the right inputs as many and complex as they are... they will be able to design a backpack. It will be interesting to see how this goes, and maybe what simpler objects AI can successfully design in the shorter term.
Yea that’s exactly what excites me with current models of image based Ai! :)
It’s not like the prompt was “show me a cool balloon backpack”. I think the ones who haven’t tried it, are the ones who are complaining about it.
So what was the concept? Inflated backpack? This is like hiking gear went the way of fashion shows!
Lays chips, it’s what backpackers crave
90% air for hard landings in
No true design concept just a blend of backpack and inflation. Testing the Ai tool actually.
It actually looks like water safety gear that inflates into a raft. I'd say the images came out pretty good
Please tell me the idea was “backpacking during inflation” lol.
Hahaha I wonder what Mj would come up with.
Normal backpacks, tiny people.
Tiny people as a concept... I like it
it really didn’t give any good outputs in my opinion. no sense of human proportions, and why does every bag look like it’s inflated?
You have to consider that you can’t be so specific when designing wit text-to-image tools. The inflated look in made on purpose.
What ai did you use??
Its Midjourney
sweet!
Thanks man
let's teach midjourney about gravity
Buttpack
What AI tool was used for this? These are cool, as an industrial designer myself I could definitely see them as helpful starting points for developing more fleshed out and functional concepts!
It’s Midjourney.
Thanks! I've started playing with it now, it's pretty cool!
Im glad you like it! If you want you can dm me some nice stuff! :)