Design Theater: A Benchmark for Generative UI

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2607.22928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative UI tools promise to democratize UI design by turning natural language descriptions into complete interfaces. Alongside the interface, these tools generate user-facing design rationales that explain their layout, accessibility, and design choices. However, it remains unclear whether these stated rationales are actually reflected in the interfaces they produce. We call this disconnect ``Design Theater'': plausible and confident design rationales that have little relationship to the actual implementation. To study this phenomenon, we introduce a benchmark and three metrics for measuring Design Theater. The benchmark includes 24 UI generation tasks spanning structural, styling, and functional design requirements. Using this benchmark,