Traditional digital design involves professionals translating design concepts into subtasks, processing digital components, and then combining them in ways that meet human needs. From a procedural perspective, the typical design workflow is: design sketch programming implementation. Traditional design methods adopt a global control mode during the sketching phase.
In contrast, the typical generative design workflow based on large language models is: defining rules generating programming. Generative design internalizes the intermediate steps through AI, allowing non-professionals to participate and enabling open-ended iteration. The key difference lies in the former emphasizing human control over the entire process, while the latter delegates partial control to algorithmic systems.