Hi Eric, I’m a professor of human centered design in the Netherlands and I help train design students to prototype and design new AI user experiences. Could you share some ideas for AI experiences that you don’t have time to pursue but wish other people would explore?
We’ve prototyped many different tools before. However, the space is frankly disorienting because there is so much opportunity. Any suggestions to inspire engineering students to develop useful explorations?
Sure, just some ideas at random, but the most important advice is just to try new things and see what feels good:
- dashboards or other reports that call you when something changes, so you don't have to log in to see what's changed
- extremely personalized settings that remember exactly who you are and what you like to do with the interface, to the point that it basically uses it for you
- rapid prototyping interfaces, doing things like "make it real" demo
- extremely simple apps that use AI in the backend to do amazing things. how about a camera app that just sends everything it sees to GPT4-v. think how much easier that would be than loading up a translator app, taking a picture of a menu, uploading the picture, etc. just figure out what I might want to do based on the fact that I took a photo
- artistic/musical/creative apps that require only your phone and that you can noodle on while you have 5m of idle time. maybe the AI works on it silently in the background and then the user gives notes or feedback whenever they have time. end product is a pro-level artistic work that reflects the user's taste level but the AI's mastery of technique
If you're visiting london and feel inspired by the "make it real" demo, ppl in that circle routinely demo at Maggie Appleton's rad Future of Coding events[1] (and many other talented people building UIs and interfaces).
We’ve prototyped many different tools before. However, the space is frankly disorienting because there is so much opportunity. Any suggestions to inspire engineering students to develop useful explorations?