Tag Design

What is Human Centred AI?

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…

Benchmarking AI usability

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…

Design? Research? Problem solving.

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.…

On empathy in customer service

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…