tl;dr: Human centred AI (or HCAI) is a paradigm, similar to human centred design, that contains methods, tools, and principles to ensure AI is designed with humans at its heart, that it’s usable, accessible, safe, and trustworthy. It’s aimed to…
Situation Deloitte launched an ambitious new campaign in collaboration with Salesforce to reimagine the future of customer service, supported by agentic AI. The centrepiece of the campaign was an immersive 360 experience, as well as a stand at Salesforce World…
I’ve been working on something fun that I want to share with the design community. A ‘quick and dirty’ usability score for AI I’m calling the AI Experience Score (AES)—not to be confused with the Advanced Encryption Standard, the name…
Can we talk about synthetic users? We, experience designers (or researchers; HCD is a big umbrella), all know they’re a bad idea… but why? And how do we convince our business colleagues without sounding like the whole field is in…
I’ve been thinking about this over the weekend. We spent the last two years feverishly trying out approaches to make research analysis easier for ourselves. First we tried simply dropping in all our interview transcripts into the chat and let…
About 10 years ago I went on IDEO’s human-centred design course. It was free, it was easy to grasp, and it gave us the tools we needed to design great products. It’s still around, you can check it out here.…
We did some research recently. We asked participants to recount a particularly frustrating experience with customer service. Almost every single one said, “I felt like they didn’t listen.” and something in the vein of, “I need to know that they…
If we take away the incessant torrent of AI news, articles, panicked Reddit posts, trashy Tik Tok videos, and other slosh. What’s left? How do you actually use AI in your day to day? Let’s start with a proud sample…
We worked with the UK Health Security Agency to identify opportunities to improve the Measles Surveillance Pathway. Navigating internal politics and ethical considerations, I led a team to plan and conduct a Discovery. We identified £800k in estimated efficiency savings…
Situation A government department’s ambition was to transform its marine licensing service. The complexity of the process, ministerial oversight, and several failed attempts in previous years made this a challenging environment that required careful stakeholder management and ambiguity around recruitment.…