Are you tired of the relentless AI marketing hype but know you can't afford to ignore it? Discover how to stop blindly applying AI and start mastering it as a malleable "design material" to build impactful, user-centered services .
It’s time to stop buying into the stories big tech companies want us to believe about what Artificial Intelligence can and can’t do. Slapping AI mindlessly onto every project doesn't just create bad user experiences. It can do real harm.
To set a better example for the service design industry, host Marc sits down with Ovetta Sampson. With a resume that includes Director of UX for Machine Learning at Google and AI design leadership roles at Microsoft and Capital One, Ovetta doesn't just talk theory. She runs Right AI to help teams adopt AI safely, responsibly, and effectively. In this conversation, she breaks down exactly how to understand AI's unique properties, navigate its limitations, and mold it into exactly what you need.
In This Episode:
- The Design Material Mindset: How to stop fearing AI and start shaping it like clay to get the outcomes you want.
- Steering the Machine: Practical techniques for guiding generic LLMs to reliably produce high-quality, specific results.
- The Context Crisis: Why understanding your users' real-world context is about to become more important than ever before.
- When "Wrong" Becomes Dangerous: Why AI will always make mistakes, and how to identify the exact point where those errors become harmful.
- Breaking the Model: Why you need to start "messing around" and intentionally trying to break AI tools to build your own grounded mastery.
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As always, enjoy, and keep making a positive impact!
~ Marc
[ 1. GUIDE ]
00:00 Intro and AI Sycophancy
03:15 Mindless vs. Mindful AI
06:45 Dangers of Automation Bias
10:00 The Humanizing Trap
17:45 Design as a Verb
24:30 Emergent AI Behavior
27:30 AI Confidence Levels
36:15 The Illusion of AI Memory
39:00 Principle 1 of Mindful AI
43:30 Library vs. Netflix Analogy
49:45 Designing for Failure
55:15 The Socio-Technical Challenge
01:01:45 Advice for Designers
01:06:00 Learning Resources
01:09:00 Redefining the Designer
01:11:15 Outro
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