Moodboard Connection Visualiser

I designed a prototype for an AI-powered moodboarding utility aimed at solving the "Synthesis" bottleneck. This tool evolves the creative process from mere asset generation to automatically identifying emerging themes and meaningful patterns within scattered ideas.

Design-Eng Experiment • 2025
Experiment

From Idea Generation to Idea Synthesis

While AI has made generating ideas effortless, identifying patterns in the resulting "creative chaos" remains a manual, time-consuming struggle.

The Challenge
In an era where quantity is no longer a bottleneck, creatives spend more time "organizing the mess" than developing the actual concept.

The Goal
Build a prototype that helps users visualize connections and cluster concepts into meaningful groups automatically, rather than just starting from a blank canvas.

Kosmik moodboarding interface
Kosmik's interface for creating fluid moodboards with AI-powered search

Intelligent Pattern Mapping

I focused on three core AI-driven behaviors to streamline creative synthesis and keep the user in creative control.

  • Contextual Branching: Generating new ideas directly from existing nodes to maintain a logic-driven flow without starting from scratch.
  • AI as Copilot: Utilizing custom prompts for specific idea generation, ensuring the AI acts as a creative partner rather than a replacement.
  • Smart Clustering: Developing an automated grouping engine that reveals patterns and themes that might otherwise be missed during manual organization.
Contextual Branching: Generate ideas directly from existing content—no starting from scratch.
AI as Copilot: Create new ideas with custom prompts, keeping you in creative control.
Smart Clustering: Group ideas into themes automatically, revealing patterns you might miss.

A Functional Design R&D Prototype

The result is a functional web-based experiment that validates a "Synthesis-first" moodboarding model.

  • User Interaction: Built an embedded "Try It Yourself" interactive canvas allowing the design community to test the logic-driven clustering in real-time.
  • Process Evolution: Successfully demonstrated how moodboarding tools can evolve from simple image boards to intelligent systems that cluster concepts into meaningful groups.

TRY it yourself: Try the spatial UI, clustering, and generating here. This preview includes a subset of features to explore.

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