Designers are increasingly using online resources for inspiration. How to best support design exploration without compromising creativity? We introduce and study Design Maps, a class of point-cloud visualizations that makes large user interface datasets explorable. Design Maps are computed using dimensionality reduction and clustering techniques, which we analyze thoroughly in this paper. We present concepts for integrating Design Maps into design tools, including interactive visualization, local neighborhood exploration and functionality to integrate existing solutions to the design at hand. These concepts were implemented in a wireframing tool for mobile apps, which was evaluated with actual designers performing realistic tasks. Overall, designers find Design Maps supporting their creativity (avg. CSI score of 74/100) and indicate that the maps producing consistent whitespacing within cloud points are the most informative ones.

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使用设计图对大规模 UI 数据集进行交互式探索

设计师越来越多地使用在线资源来获取灵感。如何在不影响创造力的情况下最好地支持设计探索？我们介绍和研究设计地图，这是一类点云可视化，可让大型用户界面数据集可探索。设计图是使用降维和聚类技术计算的，我们在本文中对其进行了深入分析。我们提出了将设计地图集成到设计工具中的概念，包括交互式可视化、当地社区探索以及将现有解决方案集成到手头设计的功能。这些概念在移动应用程序的线框图工具中实现，并由执行现实任务的实际设计师进行评估。总体而言，设计师发现设计地图支持他们的创造力（平均