The importance of Designers as mediators.

Our basic understanding of both disciplines enabled us to bridge the gap between Data Scientists and Clinicians. This lead us to a realistic concept that still catered to the visions and needs of our stakeholders ultimately aligning both disciplines behind a common goal. Especially in complex projects (like AI for Medical Purposes) interdisciplinary work is required in which such a generalist/mediator skillset is beneficial.

The game-changing potential of AI and its Implications on Design



My initial interest in AI became an obsession after our thesis. Why? Because Human-AI-Collaboration is a genuinely new paradigm with enormous potential. Especially for the field of Interaction Design which has been in a one-way-street towards maximizing screentime this is great news: More intelligent technology opens up the potential to interact with it in more natural and humane ways.

But to successfully design such experiences, new skills are required: Understanding Limitations and Strengths of AI-Technology, defining guidelines that ensure the great power that AI-Systems bring is also utilized with the right level of responsibility.

Seeing that there haven’t been much best practices out there so far, we decided to distill our learnings into design principles. We presented them already at some talks, opening up discussions I believe are really necessary as we transition from the Information Age into the Age of Intelligence.