Infinite ideas, limitless creativity

Discover new perspectives and possibilities with Design Sparks through AI generated sparks

WINNER of the Best Enhanced UX Design Platform 2023 in the Corporate Vision Magazine Artificial Intelligence Awards.

The collaborator you can count on

Whether you’re a service, product, UX/UI designer or stakeholder, bounce around as many ideas as you want, whenever you want, with our web-app.

The creativity never has to end.

Get started

Tailored to you

The AI will respond to any design problem or idea you have – just type it into the app, paste a link, or upload a relevant PDF and see the sparks appear. Save any which stand out to you and your browser will remember them for next time.

Get started

Supercharge creativity

Design Sparks uses well established creative problem solving techniques that have been adapted to design projects alongside AI to help you find your best solutions.

Get started

Sustainability

Circular design will be a key pillar for more sustainable economies in the future. Design Sparks supports your creative thinking to generate ideas around preventing waste and pollution and creating durable, reusable, repairable and recyclable products.

We launched sets of sparks which direct the AI to generate ideas for more circular designs at the Design for Planet Festival 2023. developed alongside experts from the Design Council and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

To try out this feature in Design Sparks simply go to theme settings, select the circular design option and click save.

Direct your idea generation

Focus your ideas by clicking on extracted topics

Generate more ideas based on a specific spark

Look for rare, common or random themes

Choose a creative problem solving technique

Refresh spark ideas as many times as you like

Get started

Design Sparks is a tool developed by The National Centre for Creativity enabled by AI (CebAI), at Bayes Business School.

We manipulate creative problem-solving processes using machine learning, among other types of new AI technology. CebAI’s tools are differentiated from chatbots like ChatGPT because of the interactive creativity prompts, curated knowledge, and insights components built-in to the tools.

The centre’s mission it to develop research-based AI technologies that increase workforce creativity which, in turn, can contribute to improved productivity, competitiveness, and critical thinking.

We receive funding from Research England, with contributions from City, University of London and support, research and development from over 20 industrial partners.

Some of the partners who support our work in AI and creativity