Design creativity in AI: Using the SCAMPER method

Abstract The rise of generative artificial intelligences (AIs) has quickly made them auxiliary tools in numerous fields, especially in the creative one. Many scientific works already discuss the comparison of the creative capacity of AIs with human beings. In the field of Engineering Design, however, numerous design methodologies have been developed that enhance the creativity of the designer in their idea generation phase. Therefore, this work aims to expand previous works by leading a Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4) based generative AI to use a design methodology to generate creative concepts. The results suggest that these types of tools can be useful for designers in that they can inspire novel ideas, but they still lack the necessary capacity to discern technically feasible ideas.