GUIDE: Designer-in-the-loop Authoring of Conformant Generative User Interfaces

Abstract

Generative User Interfaces (GenUIs) enable applications to generate interfaces on demand from user needs and context. Like conventional UIs, they must still reflect designers' intent and conform to requirements such as brand identity. Unlike conventional UIs, designers cannot directly specify or see every interface a GenUI may produce, making design intent harder to enforce. We introduce GUIDE (GenUI Development Environment), a system that lets designers continuously inspect and refine GenUI behavior as they create and edit interfaces. GUIDE uses designers' modifications and interactions to adapt GenUIs through prompt optimization and a novel adaptive conformance scoring model. We validate GUIDE's scoring model and system. The scoring model matched or outperformed proprietary LLM baselines on held-out comparisons of real and synthetic application screens. In a study with 12 UI/UX practitioners, participants found GUIDE effective and usable and significantly preferred aligned outputs over a strong baseline using exemplars and a model-generated design.md.