Our online morgenbooster: Data & Technology as Design Material
The presentation will answer: What are the ethical and cultural implications of using data and technology as design material?
Join Red Pill Development's Creative Director Bob Kadrie, and Software Engineer Keith Strickland as they discuss how good design profoundly impacts the effectiveness of the applications you develop. In this session we will explore the industry's renewed dedication to user experience by taking a closer look at the design standards created by Google, IBM and Microsoft, and how you can utilize these design strategies to improve your application's usability and adoption.
Beyond ArchViz: Discovering the value in interactivityUnity Technologies
Learn how Mortenson, one of the world's largest construction companies, has developed their approach to facilitating design, training personnel, and engaging customers through immersive simulations. By comparing some of their earlier projects to their most recent work, you'll see how they have learned to use Unity to generate value for major brands, and begin to explore their vision for the future of the medium.
Marc Kinsman - Mortenson
Will Adams - Mortenson
Communicating Legal Rights through VisualisationMichael Doherty
A presentation to the Association of Law Teachers conference, Keele, UK, April 2018 on a legal design project. The project simplified and visualised the legal rights of students as tenants.
Join Red Pill Development's Creative Director Bob Kadrie, and Software Engineer Keith Strickland as they discuss how good design profoundly impacts the effectiveness of the applications you develop. In this session we will explore the industry's renewed dedication to user experience by taking a closer look at the design standards created by Google, IBM and Microsoft, and how you can utilize these design strategies to improve your application's usability and adoption.
Beyond ArchViz: Discovering the value in interactivityUnity Technologies
Learn how Mortenson, one of the world's largest construction companies, has developed their approach to facilitating design, training personnel, and engaging customers through immersive simulations. By comparing some of their earlier projects to their most recent work, you'll see how they have learned to use Unity to generate value for major brands, and begin to explore their vision for the future of the medium.
Marc Kinsman - Mortenson
Will Adams - Mortenson
Communicating Legal Rights through VisualisationMichael Doherty
A presentation to the Association of Law Teachers conference, Keele, UK, April 2018 on a legal design project. The project simplified and visualised the legal rights of students as tenants.
Presentation from the launch of Reading UTC http://www.utcreading.co.uk/ and http://www.sourcewire.com/news/76755/microsoft-hosts-utc-reading-taster-event
Synthetic Data: From 3D model to AI on the EdgeSherry List
This presentation shows you how easily #SyntheticData can be created with the help of Three.JS and Playwright, and how this data can be used to train #ai models that will be used on the #Edge.
Experience Design for the IoT | Tim Scanlon - 2016 Tongji Design Week Keynote Tim Scanlon
This is one of 2 presentations Tim Scanlon presented in Shanghai during the Fall of 2016. Every autumn, the Tongji University College of Design and Innovation organizes a small, highly interactive conference on design research and design education titled “Emerging Practices” (EPC). Since the first EPC in 2012, this has become an annual forum for debates on such themes as new practices, values, and approaches arising in design and design education; open design; influences on
developing practices; DesignX; and design activism. The main theme of EPC this year is “Design in Complexity.” It will continue and expand the conversation initiated by the DesignX Manifesto in 2014. This conversation developed further in a
two-day DesignX workshop hosted by Tongji University in 2015. The first DesignX Manifesto articulated the nature of working in and with complex sociotechnical systems, attempting to explore the framework for designers to address such issues. The follow-up DesignX workshop explored the
principles of working with such systems, highlighted the importance and difficulty of implementing solutions to DesignX problems. The workshop focused on several valuable cases. It sparked a lively discussion that we will continue this year
How to Intersect Digital and Physical Product by WeWork Sr PMProduct School
WeWork's core "product" is access to physical buildings. But it also has a huge tech team that builds tons of web-based software apps. The end goal is a customer engagement that seamlessly blends the experience of occupying a physical space with the additional features that come from integrated technology products.
This presentation outlines our vision on the D-Reader, the product our company develops. The product is focused on automated understanding of engineering drawings.
La rivoluzione del fare impresa: creatività e digital fabrication per il calz...FaberLab
La digital fabrication – fabbricazione digitale, stampa 3D – può essere applicata in ambito calzaturiero? Su questo tema Faberlab, Confartigianato Imprese Varese e Confartigianato Lomellina hanno promosso il 28 settembre 2015 un workshop sulle tecniche del digital manufacturing all’interno dei processi produttivi del settore scarpe.
“La rivoluzione del fare impresa: creatività e digital fabrication per il settore calzaturiero“ è stata l’occasione per presentare da una parte i lavori del progetto Londra e contemporaneamente per focalizzare l’attenzione sulle possibili applicazioni della digital fabbrication in ambito calzaturiero.
La presentazione di Zoe Romano, di We Make Milano
What Tech Jobs That Don’t Require Coding You Should Know.pptxcalltutors
There are a lot of tech jobs that don't require coding languages such as data analyst, product manager, scrum master, IT Business analyst, and so on.
Pretty Matters: Web Components, Material Design and PolymerMaria Clara Santana
Palestra realizada em conjunto com Carla Nicole Calheiros, graduanda em ciência da computação e web developer, na Semana de Tecnologia do Instituto Federal de Alagoas. Com foco em front-end development, a palestra visou mostrar a necessidade de ter um design fluído nas aplicações, no caso com Material Design, e mostrar ferramentas que auxiliam esse processo.
The company was established in 2011 with a team of dedicated professionals. With the great dedication, hard-work and services provided by us which has passed its many glorious year of success.
We tried to create a benchmark IT Company for the country and the world.
We Emulation Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd, an ISO 9001:2008 (JAS-ANZ) certified outsourcing Web Devplomnet ,Software Devlopment and Service Provider in India.
Our Company invites its website visitors to outsource their Web Design, web application (using .NET, PHP, JAVA,WordPress), Software Development, SEO (search engine optimization) and SMO (social media optimization) projects with us and save their money as we provide affordable and qualitative Web applications and Software Development Services. We also deal in web hosting (VPS and shared servers) & domain name (.com/.co/ in/.net/.org/.us/ eu / .uk /.biz) registration. We would be glad to provide our customers with service of bulk SMS, our products like e-calling system & e-commerce web applications.
It is an IT company for development and SEO. We are interested in deal with our customers, and believe that our work and experience is appropriate for working to meet requirements of them. As the requirement for the working is a track record of success. Our efforts yielded success in new business development. Success in this field is only dealing with Professionals. Our professionals are experienced with more than 10 years.
Designing for What If (instead of as if) - Morgenbooster1508 A/S
Design, as a craft, has evolved. It has shifted from focusing solely on shapes and colors to encompassing a mindset and methodology that we can leverage to create anything – from meaningful digital solutions to societal change.
Morgenbooster: Storytelling in Identity Design1508 A/S
Since the dawn of day, stories have been shared and passed along between people to create a sense of meaning and belonging. People remember great stories. Branding is both an idea and an image that people have of a product, service, or company.
Design Storytelling affects your audience by tying the idea and image together—in a visceral way. In this morning booster, we share our views on how to create a visual concept where everything blends together and share cases where the identity design is telling a unique story about the brand it is a visual representation of.
Presentation from the launch of Reading UTC http://www.utcreading.co.uk/ and http://www.sourcewire.com/news/76755/microsoft-hosts-utc-reading-taster-event
Synthetic Data: From 3D model to AI on the EdgeSherry List
This presentation shows you how easily #SyntheticData can be created with the help of Three.JS and Playwright, and how this data can be used to train #ai models that will be used on the #Edge.
Experience Design for the IoT | Tim Scanlon - 2016 Tongji Design Week Keynote Tim Scanlon
This is one of 2 presentations Tim Scanlon presented in Shanghai during the Fall of 2016. Every autumn, the Tongji University College of Design and Innovation organizes a small, highly interactive conference on design research and design education titled “Emerging Practices” (EPC). Since the first EPC in 2012, this has become an annual forum for debates on such themes as new practices, values, and approaches arising in design and design education; open design; influences on
developing practices; DesignX; and design activism. The main theme of EPC this year is “Design in Complexity.” It will continue and expand the conversation initiated by the DesignX Manifesto in 2014. This conversation developed further in a
two-day DesignX workshop hosted by Tongji University in 2015. The first DesignX Manifesto articulated the nature of working in and with complex sociotechnical systems, attempting to explore the framework for designers to address such issues. The follow-up DesignX workshop explored the
principles of working with such systems, highlighted the importance and difficulty of implementing solutions to DesignX problems. The workshop focused on several valuable cases. It sparked a lively discussion that we will continue this year
How to Intersect Digital and Physical Product by WeWork Sr PMProduct School
WeWork's core "product" is access to physical buildings. But it also has a huge tech team that builds tons of web-based software apps. The end goal is a customer engagement that seamlessly blends the experience of occupying a physical space with the additional features that come from integrated technology products.
This presentation outlines our vision on the D-Reader, the product our company develops. The product is focused on automated understanding of engineering drawings.
La rivoluzione del fare impresa: creatività e digital fabrication per il calz...FaberLab
La digital fabrication – fabbricazione digitale, stampa 3D – può essere applicata in ambito calzaturiero? Su questo tema Faberlab, Confartigianato Imprese Varese e Confartigianato Lomellina hanno promosso il 28 settembre 2015 un workshop sulle tecniche del digital manufacturing all’interno dei processi produttivi del settore scarpe.
“La rivoluzione del fare impresa: creatività e digital fabrication per il settore calzaturiero“ è stata l’occasione per presentare da una parte i lavori del progetto Londra e contemporaneamente per focalizzare l’attenzione sulle possibili applicazioni della digital fabbrication in ambito calzaturiero.
La presentazione di Zoe Romano, di We Make Milano
What Tech Jobs That Don’t Require Coding You Should Know.pptxcalltutors
There are a lot of tech jobs that don't require coding languages such as data analyst, product manager, scrum master, IT Business analyst, and so on.
Pretty Matters: Web Components, Material Design and PolymerMaria Clara Santana
Palestra realizada em conjunto com Carla Nicole Calheiros, graduanda em ciência da computação e web developer, na Semana de Tecnologia do Instituto Federal de Alagoas. Com foco em front-end development, a palestra visou mostrar a necessidade de ter um design fluído nas aplicações, no caso com Material Design, e mostrar ferramentas que auxiliam esse processo.
The company was established in 2011 with a team of dedicated professionals. With the great dedication, hard-work and services provided by us which has passed its many glorious year of success.
We tried to create a benchmark IT Company for the country and the world.
We Emulation Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd, an ISO 9001:2008 (JAS-ANZ) certified outsourcing Web Devplomnet ,Software Devlopment and Service Provider in India.
Our Company invites its website visitors to outsource their Web Design, web application (using .NET, PHP, JAVA,WordPress), Software Development, SEO (search engine optimization) and SMO (social media optimization) projects with us and save their money as we provide affordable and qualitative Web applications and Software Development Services. We also deal in web hosting (VPS and shared servers) & domain name (.com/.co/ in/.net/.org/.us/ eu / .uk /.biz) registration. We would be glad to provide our customers with service of bulk SMS, our products like e-calling system & e-commerce web applications.
It is an IT company for development and SEO. We are interested in deal with our customers, and believe that our work and experience is appropriate for working to meet requirements of them. As the requirement for the working is a track record of success. Our efforts yielded success in new business development. Success in this field is only dealing with Professionals. Our professionals are experienced with more than 10 years.
Designing for What If (instead of as if) - Morgenbooster1508 A/S
Design, as a craft, has evolved. It has shifted from focusing solely on shapes and colors to encompassing a mindset and methodology that we can leverage to create anything – from meaningful digital solutions to societal change.
Morgenbooster: Storytelling in Identity Design1508 A/S
Since the dawn of day, stories have been shared and passed along between people to create a sense of meaning and belonging. People remember great stories. Branding is both an idea and an image that people have of a product, service, or company.
Design Storytelling affects your audience by tying the idea and image together—in a visceral way. In this morning booster, we share our views on how to create a visual concept where everything blends together and share cases where the identity design is telling a unique story about the brand it is a visual representation of.
AI and Design Vol. 2: Navigating the New Frontier - Morgenbooster1508 A/S
Join us for the eagerly anticipated Volume 2 of our Morgenbooster, where we delve deeper into the rapidly evolving landscape of AI in design. This session promises to be an exploratory journey through the latest advancements within AI.
Uncertainty as a Business and Design Tool - Morgenbooster1508 A/S
In today's rapidly evolving world, the relevance of future-proofing your business cannot be overstated. But how do you make change an integral part of your strategy?
Lowww: How to design for a low carbon world wide web - Morgenbooster1508 A/S
Browsing the internet for inspiration for your next vacation is as bad for the environment as actually traveling there by plane. Well, at least on a large scale. That is because accumulated, the internet emits the same amount of CO2 as the airline industry.
Ai and Design: When, Why and How? - Morgenbooster1508 A/S
This year, A and I became the probably most used letters in the alphabet. Time to reflect upon the role we play as designers in an increasingly AI-driven landscape.
The internet emits the same amount of CO2 as aviation. Find out why and get actionable insight into how we might reduce our digital products’ carbon footprint.
The Power of Words: Why Writing is Designing too Morgenbooster1508 A/S
Do you have a digital service, website or app? Then you probably need a UX writer. Find out how UX writing can tie together value proposition and user experience.
User centricity, hypothesising and prototyping. These are some of the core principles of Design Thinking. By empathising with a group of people, these principles promise to reduce uncertainty about what problems to solve for whom and how.
How do you turn pension, a difficult and perhaps a bit boring subject, into simple and relevant messages for 350,000 members? That is what this Morgenbooster will answer.
During this Morgenbooster, we will dive into the understanding of digital design systems, and why they have become increasingly popular.
What are they? How do they work? What will you gain from building one? And last, but not least we will take you through a couple of tangible experiences and journeys of building such a system.
Throughout the talk we will be sharing experiences from both a design and development perspective.
And hopefully we will all have the feeling of getting one step closer to a design system, which meets all the requirements in modern digital design. A system where all services, assets and communications are designed from one central place to evoke both emotions in a coherent brand experience and support the functional necessities of today’s dynamic business strategies.
Morgenbooster 1508 - Think like a Futurist Act Like a Designer1508 A/S
Our Morgenbooster: Think Like a Futurist, Act Like a Designer
Get a sneak-peek into how to apply futures thinking to your design processes to help create reactive and proactive brands, businesses, and products.
Our Morgenbooster: The Game of Accessibility
Exploring the digital realm of video gaming and embracing the hypothesis of whether we can learn from it.
Particular focus on the approach video games take to accessibility, and user customization in general, when designing experiences.
No-Code Tools: Website Design of the Future?1508 A/S
Our Morgenbooster: No-Code Tools: Website Design of the Future?
No-code tools such as Webflow has made it possible for everyone to easily build a customisable website. But is it smart to venture into website design without a frontend, UX or design background?
Our Morgenbooster: Place Branding by Nordic Talks
How do we create a place brand for the Nordics without compromising the national place branding efforts?
Global Situational Awareness of A.I. and where its headedvikram sood
You can see the future first in San Francisco.
Over the past year, the talk of the town has shifted from $10 billion compute clusters to $100 billion clusters to trillion-dollar clusters. Every six months another zero is added to the boardroom plans. Behind the scenes, there’s a fierce scramble to secure every power contract still available for the rest of the decade, every voltage transformer that can possibly be procured. American big business is gearing up to pour trillions of dollars into a long-unseen mobilization of American industrial might. By the end of the decade, American electricity production will have grown tens of percent; from the shale fields of Pennsylvania to the solar farms of Nevada, hundreds of millions of GPUs will hum.
The AGI race has begun. We are building machines that can think and reason. By 2025/26, these machines will outpace college graduates. By the end of the decade, they will be smarter than you or I; we will have superintelligence, in the true sense of the word. Along the way, national security forces not seen in half a century will be un-leashed, and before long, The Project will be on. If we’re lucky, we’ll be in an all-out race with the CCP; if we’re unlucky, an all-out war.
Everyone is now talking about AI, but few have the faintest glimmer of what is about to hit them. Nvidia analysts still think 2024 might be close to the peak. Mainstream pundits are stuck on the wilful blindness of “it’s just predicting the next word”. They see only hype and business-as-usual; at most they entertain another internet-scale technological change.
Before long, the world will wake up. But right now, there are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness. Through whatever peculiar forces of fate, I have found myself amongst them. A few years ago, these people were derided as crazy—but they trusted the trendlines, which allowed them to correctly predict the AI advances of the past few years. Whether these people are also right about the next few years remains to be seen. But these are very smart people—the smartest people I have ever met—and they are the ones building this technology. Perhaps they will be an odd footnote in history, or perhaps they will go down in history like Szilard and Oppenheimer and Teller. If they are seeing the future even close to correctly, we are in for a wild ride.
Let me tell you what we see.
Techniques to optimize the pagerank algorithm usually fall in two categories. One is to try reducing the work per iteration, and the other is to try reducing the number of iterations. These goals are often at odds with one another. Skipping computation on vertices which have already converged has the potential to save iteration time. Skipping in-identical vertices, with the same in-links, helps reduce duplicate computations and thus could help reduce iteration time. Road networks often have chains which can be short-circuited before pagerank computation to improve performance. Final ranks of chain nodes can be easily calculated. This could reduce both the iteration time, and the number of iterations. If a graph has no dangling nodes, pagerank of each strongly connected component can be computed in topological order. This could help reduce the iteration time, no. of iterations, and also enable multi-iteration concurrency in pagerank computation. The combination of all of the above methods is the STICD algorithm. [sticd] For dynamic graphs, unchanged components whose ranks are unaffected can be skipped altogether.
Adjusting primitives for graph : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
Graph algorithms, like PageRank Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) is an adjacency-list based graph representation that is
Multiply with different modes (map)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector multiply.
2. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector multiply.
Sum with different storage types (reduce)
1. Performance of vector element sum using float vs bfloat16 as the storage type.
Sum with different modes (reduce)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector element sum.
2. Performance of memcpy vs in-place based CUDA based vector element sum.
3. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (memcpy).
4. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Sum with in-place strategies of CUDA mode (reduce)
1. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
The Building Blocks of QuestDB, a Time Series Databasejavier ramirez
Talk Delivered at Valencia Codes Meetup 2024-06.
Traditionally, databases have treated timestamps just as another data type. However, when performing real-time analytics, timestamps should be first class citizens and we need rich time semantics to get the most out of our data. We also need to deal with ever growing datasets while keeping performant, which is as fun as it sounds.
It is no wonder time-series databases are now more popular than ever before. Join me in this session to learn about the internal architecture and building blocks of QuestDB, an open source time-series database designed for speed. We will also review a history of some of the changes we have gone over the past two years to deal with late and unordered data, non-blocking writes, read-replicas, or faster batch ingestion.
Learn SQL from basic queries to Advance queriesmanishkhaire30
Dive into the world of data analysis with our comprehensive guide on mastering SQL! This presentation offers a practical approach to learning SQL, focusing on real-world applications and hands-on practice. Whether you're a beginner or looking to sharpen your skills, this guide provides the tools you need to extract, analyze, and interpret data effectively.
Key Highlights:
Foundations of SQL: Understand the basics of SQL, including data retrieval, filtering, and aggregation.
Advanced Queries: Learn to craft complex queries to uncover deep insights from your data.
Data Trends and Patterns: Discover how to identify and interpret trends and patterns in your datasets.
Practical Examples: Follow step-by-step examples to apply SQL techniques in real-world scenarios.
Actionable Insights: Gain the skills to derive actionable insights that drive informed decision-making.
Join us on this journey to enhance your data analysis capabilities and unlock the full potential of SQL. Perfect for data enthusiasts, analysts, and anyone eager to harness the power of data!
#DataAnalysis #SQL #LearningSQL #DataInsights #DataScience #Analytics
Adjusting OpenMP PageRank : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
For massive graphs that fit in RAM, but not in GPU memory, it is possible to take
advantage of a shared memory system with multiple CPUs, each with multiple cores, to
accelerate pagerank computation. If the NUMA architecture of the system is properly taken
into account with good vertex partitioning, the speedup can be significant. To take steps in
this direction, experiments are conducted to implement pagerank in OpenMP using two
different approaches, uniform and hybrid. The uniform approach runs all primitives required
for pagerank in OpenMP mode (with multiple threads). On the other hand, the hybrid
approach runs certain primitives in sequential mode (i.e., sumAt, multiply).
2. Per Jackson
Lead Creative Technologist
pcj@1508.dk
Online
Morgenbooster
Fredrik Silfver
CTO & Co-Founder at Above
fredrik@above.se
Anton Stonor
CTO & Partner at Strømlin
ast@stromlin.dk
Data &
Technology
as Design
Material
3. AI - from pattern
analysis to
creativity and
design
23. John Maeda:
“Design in Tech Report 2016”
https://designintech.report/wp-
content/uploads/2018/11/designintech2016_small.pdf ™
Classical Design Design Thinking Computational Design
Design of objects we use in the
physical world
Collaborate and innovate using
ideation methods
Creative activity that involves
computer technology and the
network
DESIGN BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY
39. Classical Design Design Thinking Computational Design
Design of objects we use in the
physical world
Collaborate and innovate using
ideation methods
Creative activity that involves
computer technology and the
network
DESIGN BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY
40. AI experts ≈ Future plumber jobs?
SPECIALISTS GENERALISTS
AI Specialist
ML Scientist/Engineer
Deep Learning Specialist
NLP specialist
Data Scientist/Engineer/Analyst
AI Research Scientist
Data Annotation Expert
…
Experience/Design Engineer
Design/Creative Technologist
Digital Designer
Data Visualisation Developer
Data Storyteller
...
42. What needs to happen?
Bring AI to the masses!
Democratisation of the
latest technologies
43.
44.
45. What does the industry need to do?
Bring digital transformation
& data into the core business
Bring developers into the
innovation process from day 1
Think data from the get-go
(Data/AI Driven Design)
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Editor's Notes
I want to start off by talking a little bit about a term called ‘Computational Design’. In 2016 John Maeda defined three types of design that influences the industry today.
Classical Design which deals in the design of physical objects like chairs, cars, etc
Design Thinking which pertains to how organizations learn how to collaborate and innovate using ideation methods
Computational Design which he defines as a “Creative activity that involves computer technology and the network”
And certainly we’ve seen an increase lately in the third category - especially when looking at AI, Machine Learning and data use in design.
It seems everyone is collecting data these days and are trying to find new ways of incorporating technology in to our lives. And some of these are very successful - some of these are not so great...
One of the less successful ones was the ‘Juicero Press’. A $700 Wi-Fi connected juicer that automatically blends different kinds of juice flavors to meet your preference.
Turns out you could just as well mix the flavors yourself and achieve a better result.
Also, recently a new Nirvana song came out!
A Toronto-based non-profit organisation called Over The Bridge, wanted to raise awareness of mental health issues in the music industry. And so, they let an AI create a song based on the material of Nirvana and letting a Nirvana cover-band record the track.
Although a decent agenda, I think this also raises some questions on the consequences for the music industry and also the ethics about releasing music by essentially dead people.
We’ve also seen similar things going on in the movie industry, where dead actors are resurrected in new films.
But what does it do to the industry, when we suddenly have the ability to make ourselves obsolete - to be taken over by algorithms? I kind of see this scary scenario where everything will become copies - derived from what was once the pinnacle of human creativity.
But there are also great and really interesting things happening!
The Icelandic singer Björk has created a generative score of choir music for a hotel lobby in New York, that uses Microsoft AI to respond to changes in the sky above the hotel.
So using a rooftop camera, it creates a unique musical composition for the lobby and is played 24 hours a day.
I think this is a really creative way of leveraging AI technology for the physical space.
So talking to an AI - in this case the GPT-3 from OpenAI - is yet to become indistinguishable from talking to a human being.
But, we’ve reached the point where it’s hard for us to detect if a composed text comes from a person or a computer.
This certainly has some implications for content creators, copy writers, journalists, etc. Will it just make their jobs easier, or will it end up replacing some of them?
And what about ourselves? Will we as coders be replaced in the future?
We’re definitely seeing some progress in the world of No-code tools, and we are seeing the first attempts to let Neural Networks convert images to HTML code.
I think we are not quite there yet, but it might just be a matter of computing power!
In the narrow space of online surveys, Google Forms now uses AI to parse the texts from your questions to determine which type of answer will fit your question the best.
And this is really where I see a lot of potential in terms of Machine Learning. Especially within the realm of interface design, there are a lot of places where we could sort of sprinkle a little bit of Machine Learning on to our digital services to make them just a little bit better for the users.
And it seems to me that computers are really good at solving very specific tasks within a confined space. So when it comes to something like NLP or text recognition, there will be a fair amount of mistakes being made.
And so, we have to be careful not to expect right and wrong answers from Machine Learning, but think more in terms of probabilities. Mistakes will happen, so we as designers need to present our Machine Learning results in a way that is designed for errors - and perhaps say “this might be a good option for you at this point”.
So can you tame AI?
Everyone is collecting data like there is no tomorrow! But to what end?
Facebook and Google are harvesting data on a massive scale and using AI for ad targeting your profile. And mostly it works pretty good - some would say too good.
But there’s a flipside when we start trusting the machine too much or when we don’t pay attention to potential biases hidden within our training models.
The National Gallery of Denmark has been harvesting a lot of data… Not about people, but about art!
Although not as complex as human profiles, artworks can be quite tricky especially when looking at some of the more abstract pieces.
Last year 1508 collaborated with SMK on this project call SMK Open, and while diving into this immense pool of data, we came up with a couple of interesting ideas - and essentially, we were using this data as a design material.
Not by using AI or Machine Learning, but by visualisation.
So each artwork has quite a lot of potential data attached to it.
And one data point was a list of locations where the artwork had been on exhibition.
So one of our designers came up with this idea of showing a map displaying the journey that each specific piece had been travelling through time.
I think this is a really fun way of telling a story about artworks.
We also realised that most artworks have a creation date.
And so we came up with this timeline where you would be able to see the distribution of artworks through history - also a really interesting way to look at their collection I think.
This feature didn’t reach the final site unfortunately - but we imagined putting some of history’s major events on this timeline to give the collection some context.
Right now we are also working with Finansforbundet - a Danish labor union for the financial sector.
And here we are creating a couple of services for the members to give them an overview of their work tasks and competencies. And in the process we are collecting data from their inputs in order to provide them with some useful ways to improve themselves.
Based on these data points, our AI Relation Engine returns a list of events, courses and articles that hopefully will help the users to amplify their skills and improve on their work situation.
So collecting data can serve a decent purpose, and it’s our job to find these opportunities within the space of Computational Design.
And speaking of jobs - the rise of AI have also seen the birth of a lot of new job titles out there.
Will AI Experts become the future “plummer” job? I don’t know…
But here are some of the job titles companies are seeking at the moment.
There’s a sort of division between Specialists and Generalists, where Specialists are more into the hard core development of custom AI infrastructure and services, while Generalists are more concerned with prototyping and coming up with new ideas on how to leverage AI and designing data visualizations.
As more and more things are getting connected, more data is being generated to power future customer experiences and business optimization.
So what needs to happen in order for us to keep expanding this train for the future we are on?
We need to bring AI to the masses!
And we need a democratisation of the latest technologies.
What’s the most important problem the AI community should be working on 2021?
This guy seems to hit an important point - “Explainable AI”.
Fortunately these guys have stepped up to the challenge.
Although these “AI As A Service” platforms can be quite a steep learning curve, we are seeing improvements every day, and the base entry level for engaging in these technologies are dropping fast.
So what do we in the industry need to do?
Well I think we need to:
Bring digital transformation & data into the core business
Think data from the get-go
Bring developers into the innovation process from day 1