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Nadia Piet - Design Thinking for AI
Exploring the role of
design (thinking) in AI/ML
for WUD Rome
by Nadia Piet
@nadiapiet
Hi!
I’m Nadia Piet
2006
2019
Freelance service & strategic designer and
researcher with a focus on emerging and
humanity-centered tech and futures
“We shape our tools and then our
tools shape us” — Marshall McLuhan
Where do (service/UX)
design and AI/ML
intersect?
What’s the role of design(ers) in the
AI/ML development process?
aimeets.design
toolkit
artificial
intelligence ?
artificial
intelligence
the practice of making computers do things
traditionally thought of as requiring human cognition
artificial
intelligence
machine
learning
≄
meansgoal
machine
learning
programming ≄
data rules output
output
data
rules
A new way of communicating
with computers
Useful for problems where the
output is clear, but rules aren’t
Predictions are
probabalistic (%)
Prediction
Output
Cake
Model
Chef
Training
Learning
Practice
GPU
Hardware
Utensils
Algorithm(s)
Instructions
Recipe
Data
Input
Ingredients
Disclaimer: Please note this is a highly simplified representation of the actual process.
+
System
+ +
classification
clustering
regression
(semi-)intelligent
(semi-)adaptive
(semi-)autonomous
systems
AI will not tell us
problems worth solving or
questions worth asking or
inefficiencies worth preserving
human(ity)-
centered design /
design (thinking)
?
Where do (service/UX)
design and AI/ML
intersect?
What’s the role of design(ers) in the
AI/ML development process?
with of
design
AI
/ for/
system requirements system limitations
ML engineering space
user needs
system requirements
user experience
system limitations
design space
ML engineering space
user needs
system requirements
user experience
system limitations
design
of
design
for
🤖
16 user-centric
design/engineering
considerations
Enabling new types
of user experiences
Turning tech capabilities
into user and social value
user-centered
problem solving
data-driven
opportunity spotting
tech-driven
opportunity spotting
Build on existing applications Leveraging dataResearch to application
How might AI/ML help solve
[this] in a unique way?
How might the data we
have access to create value
(for our users)?
How might we leverage
AI/ML (in processes where
good outcomes are clear
but rules aren’t)?
Developing new models
User research &
domain experts
for modelling
Output
(label prediction)
User experience
Input
(data sets)
Features
(factors)
Objective
(question to answer)
Business value
User
input
Trade-offs in
choosing an algorithm +
training a model
Precision
% of predictions that are relevant
Recall
% of objects that
are predicted
VS
How important is ..
Accuracy
% of predictions
are correct
Transparency
ability to trace back
why/how
VS
Benchmarking
+ evaluating
Plot:
Current human benchmark
Baseline model
Minimum confidence level
Minimum benchmark to provide value to user
100%
accuracy (?)
0%
accuracy
Cost of
errors
Confusion
matrix
Positive Negative
Positive :) True
positive
:( False
negative
Negative :( False
positive
:) True
negative
Machine prediction
Userreality
Navigating
design values
(per use case)
Emotional relationship
(‘warm tech’)
Instrumentalism
(‘cold tech’)
Automation bias /
reliance
Lack of trust /
manual
Personalization Privacy
Pro-active
(invasive?)
Re-active
(dormant?)
Human touch Computational
efficiency
Prototyping
the experience
(not the model)
Onboarding +
managing expectations
Explainability
User feedback
for machine
teaching
Data
Action
Interface
Model
User feedback
for machine
teaching
User feedback
for machine
teaching
User
autonomy
+ data
consent
by Philip van Allen
Anticipate + design
for (graceful) failure
Data bias
& fairness
Figure 2–5: ‘COMPAS Software
Results’, Julia Angwin et al. (2016)
Ethics, data privacy
& (un)intended
consequences
Translating subjective human experience
into computational parameters
user needs
system requirements
user experience /
trade-offs
system limitations
design space
engineering space
Picking +
training a model
Evaluating
your model
Cost of
errors
Explainability
User
autonomy
User feedback +
machine teaching
Bias +
Fairness
Spotting
opportunities
Expectations +
graceful failure
Bridging AI and design
“Now is our opportunity to shape that
future by putting humanists and social
scientists alongside people who are
developing artificial intelligence” 
- Marc Tessier-Lavigne
President of Stanford University
The next design
(r)evolution
industrial economy product design
service economy service design
experience economy experience design
digital /
computational
economy
algorithm /
AI design
“Human-centered design has
expanded from the design of objects
to the design of algorithms that
determine the behavior of automated
or intelligent systems”
- Harry West (CEO frog)
🙋
Thank you all
Grazie mille
Dankjewel
Questions?
Curious?
Ideas?
Let’s connect
@nadiapiet
hello@nadiapiet.com

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