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Visualizationary: Automating Design Feedback for Visualization Designers Using Large Language Models

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Sungbok Shin
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Sanghyun Hong
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Niklas Elmqvist
DOI:10.1109/TVCG.2025.3579700delete
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Interactive visualization editors empower users to author visualizations without writing code, but do not provide guidance on the art and craft of effective visual communication. In this article, we explore the potential of using an off-the-shelf large language models (LLMs) to provide actionable and customized feedback to visualization designers. Our implementation, Visualizationary, demonstrates how ChatGPT can be used for this purpose through two key components: a preamble of visualization design guidelines and a suite of perceptual filters that extract salient metrics from a visualization image. We present findings from a longitudinal user study involving 13 visualization designers—6 novices, 4 intermediates, and 3 experts—who authored a new visualization from scratch over several days. Our results indicate that providing guidance in natural language via an LLM can aid even seasoned designers in refining their visualizations.
Keywords:
Visualization design
design critique
feedback
human-centered AI
large language models

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IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics cover
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
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