Nadia Piet - Design Thinking for AI
- 3. 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
- 10. A new way of communicating
with computers
Useful for problems where the
output is clear, but rules aren’t
Predictions are
probabalistic (%)
- 14. AI will not tell us
problems worth solving or
questions worth asking or
inefficiencies worth preserving
- 23. 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
- 24. User research &
domain experts
for modelling
Output
(label prediction)
User experience
Input
(data sets)
Features
(factors)
Objective
(question to answer)
Business value
User
input
- 25. 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
- 28. 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
- 40. 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
- 42. “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
- 44. “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)
- 45. 🙋
Thank you all
Grazie mille
Dankjewel
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