AIxDesign 2021 Wrap Up➰

DECEMBER 2021 | issue #16

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Community updates

UPCOMING 🗓 — 14th December 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM CET, AIxDesign Community Hangout

Let's close the year with a bang! Our community hangouts are a space to come meet other practitioners at the intersection of AI and Design and we're hosting our next on the 14th of December! Sign up below to join us.

We'll kick off with a round of speed networking. We'll randomise 1-to-1 meetings of 5 minutes each. No pressure, good times, 10/10 Would recommend.

The room will be hosted by the inspiring Ploipailin Flynn: business strategist, digital right activist, founder of antiracistby.design, and long-term AIxDesign member.

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Still looking for a holiday gift? Besides nerdy chat over dinner, we got you the perfect gift suggestion and are coming through with a discount code for the AI Ideation Cards 🎁 Use code H0LIDAYS21 for 20% off!

2021 AIxDesign Year in Review 💫

Looking to catch up on some of the things we've done over the course of this year? Here's an overview of our 2021 content, with links to recordings and articles.

Jan, Feb, March

• Articles by Nadia on UX challenges for AI/ML products: Part I on Trust & Transparency, Part II on User Feedback & Control, and Part III on Value Alignment.
• Keynote: Creativity & AI with Stefan Leijnen
• Keynote: AI explainability using Data Storytelling with Mara Pometti
• Article by Mara on The next generation of storytelling

April, May, June

• We launched the AIxDesign Resource Library
• Keynote: Assistive AI in Architecture with Klara Vatn
• Keynote: Embrace Context — Developing a Designer's Understanding of AI with Abhay Agarwal
• We launched a Kickstarter for our AI Ideation Cards and you made it happen! We crowdfunded over 100 decks and really felt the love. The last batch of sets and digital editions are still available on our webshop
• Article by Dipti on 3 Learnings about Human-Centered AI Principles from Designing a Breast Cancer Screening Platform for Radiologists
• We shared a sneak peek into the “Design Thinking for AI” course & curriculum and have done a variety of talks & workshops since

July, August, September

• Keynote: AI Artivism with Aishatu Gwadabe
• Talk and Workshop: Communal Computing with Chris Butler
• Talk and Workshop: Fictioning Synthetic Reality with Lenka Hamosova
• Alexandra curated 5+ easy AI-powered tools to automate (boring) tasks in UX/UI projects
• Alexandra created a guide for contributing articles to our AIxDesign Medium publication

October, November, December

• We opened up our community Slack with link to join on our website. In case you missed it, join us now!
• We facilitated an in-person workshop on UX of AI at the incredibly fun Design Matters conference in Copenhagen
• Talk: UX professionals in AI with Dr. Arathi Sethumadhavan
• Talk: Impact of Design on Human Decision-Making in AI Systems with Sofie Nabseth
• Workshop: Intro to ML5.js for Creative Machine Learning in the browser with Erik Katerborg
• Workshop: Playing with PoseNet in ML5 with Erik Katerborg
• Veronica wrote a tutorial version of Erik's workshop! Part I helps you build an image classifier, Part II is all about playing with PoseNet, and part III (coming soon!) will teach you to train your own Neural Network.