Human Creativity Benchmark - Desktop Apps (Mockup) - Visual Appeal: leaderboard

Human Creativity Benchmark (Hopkins et al., 2026): professional creatives rate anonymized desktop-app interfaces generated as code at the Mockup stage, where a chosen direction is developed into a coherent concept. The score is the mean 1-5 rating of how visually interesting, cohesive and polished the output is, over the evaluators and prompts of this domain and stage; higher is better.

Metric: Mean expert Likert rating (1-5) of visual interest, cohesion and polish; desktop-app interfaces written as code at the Mockup stage, rated by professional creatives. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 4 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)3.91#91
2Claude Opus 4.63.83#100
3GPT-5.3 Codex3.69#114
4Qwen 3.5 397B A17B3.63#242

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=human-creativity-benchmark-desktop-apps-mockup-visual-appeal · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.