Thank you for participating in my OER. My intention with this OER is an attempt at inviting change in design education and the industry. As educators, we need to embrace the role of AI in our future. I propose how we can do this in my OER. I felt the need to provide background knowledge in design and AI for context but please feel free to navigate to the other topics. I attempted to break down the themes in 5 videos so it’s easier to digest. It was a wild ride and I hope you will enjoy it too.
Video 1: “Introduction: AI replacing the designer?” (1:06)
Video 2: “What is Artificial Intelligence?” (1:29)
Video 3: “What is design”? and “What does the role of a design professional look like in the future?” (4:23)
Video 4: “What AI cannot replace?” and “Design Education in the Future” (1:59)
Video 5: “The Role of Mobile and AI: A Save Green Case Study” (2:50)
Please dive into our movable feast on Experience Design before watching this video
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Hi Andrea
I love your idea of separating your videos into nice viewable chunks and having a clear idea of what each segment is to accomplish. I think the idea of AI being used in design to be something that is definitely possible in the future. My experiences with being an educational assistant has taught me that differentiation is a key aspect of my pedagogy and AI product design could be a great step in provide the fundamental differentiation for student success across all ages. Currently, with any app or program, it is often tailored towards the mass with the average student in mind. That being said, it would be difficult to have products that could be different for everyone. I can imagine that AI assisted product design could potentially evolve into custom personalized variation of a line of educational products.
My concern would be the ethical implications and the amount of range this could be extended to. For instance, I was extremely interested in the ability for emotions to learn to recognize human emotions. From my psychology background, it was clear that reading emotions were a key point in developing mirroring emotions, or empathy. With AI being so strong at learning and the psychology of app development playing a part in the success of the product, would you allow machines to gain emotional insight in order to further its abilities to constantly improve the app from both a mechanical and a human perspective?
Hi Andrea,
You had a very professional array of videos. Your segue at the end of each video made for an engaging OER!
I enjoyed your overview of the current manual tasks performed in design, and the potential for AI to perform the “more repetitive” tasks for future designers. As I visited each video, I began to see a forecast in which humans would be the guides, to keep AI designers on track.
You imply that AI can drive – as though the app takes us to our destination by planning out the route, and we just nudge the driver so that we can pick up the items along the way. This route would be planned out by the AI, based on previous experience. I wonder if the contextual learning will be problematic. There have been discoveries about ingrained prejudice in our current machine learning:
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-01-25-human-bias-is-everywhere-in-tech-to-fix-it-we-need-to-reshape-computer-science-education
https://www.prindlepost.org/2019/04/racist-sexist-robots-prejudice-in-ai/
I question the impact of human prejudice and the potential reduction in loss of thinking outside the box. How creative can humans be if they only get exactly what they ask for? As you mention, AI cannot replace our experience, but from experience, great ideas often come from unexpected events. Will humans still be able to improvise with the AI designer?
In your 5th video, you showed how very mobile this app can be. The Save Green app was great for personal use. How would you use the AI designer to create lesson plans for schools? Would the AI be taught to encompass all of the possible learner traits and learning practices, and then provide metered learning experiences? Where would the educator fit into this scenario? I realize that this is almost asking for a 6th video!
Thank you for the thought-provoking forecast!
Hello Andrea
This is a great OER to introduce AI and its impact on the designer industry! It is comprehensive about AI technology, including development pathways, current technology stage, and also future impact to a specific industry. I really enjoy reading your A3. It is quite learner-friendly on this frontier technology! You did a very good job on literature reviews and presenting literature summaries!
I am inspired the most by the second part of Video 4, “what AI cannot replace?” and “design education in the future”. There are great and in-depth thoughts about the future application and impact of AI on a specific field. If I were a designer or a teacher of design education, I would have been really anxious about the future of being replaced. I have read some survey and research article saying that the top 3 irreplaceable jobs are designers, primary-school teachers, and high-end sales. Your OER ensured me about these research results.
Would you shed more light on what a designer or a design teacher would do to make his/her value more irreplaceable? Although AI could not replace them totally, I think it still changed their work a lot and partially replaced the basic work. How would the being replaced or to be replaced part impact the whole industry?
Thanks again for the great work!
Hi Andrea, I enjoyed your A3 very much!
I think the decision to break your A3 into a series of short videos really helped the viewers to stay engaged throughout the whole experience. I liked the way you laid out the information so that I get a sense of what is AI before actually learning more in depth about the topic of designers. I think this is a great combination, AI and design. I like the idea that designers can focus more on the aspect of making experiences better rather than the nuances of how to make things look a certain way.
Great work! Thanks for sharing!
Emily
Hi Andrea,
Your A3 is very interesting! I found that the information you provided about how designers will become system designers really opened my eyes to how AI can change the way that creative fields will look in the future. I found the AI design tools you showcased very exciting and I bookmarked a couple for future use:) I struggled with XD! I also really enjoyed your video bytes to break up all of the concepts. The topic I did for my A3 wasn’t based on visual arts, but instead on audio. I focused on using algorithms to create a musical ensemble. Although a different topic, I think that they are related in the sense that algorithms will always need to be guided by people, but in the case of AI, they can learn and mesh together to create a new medium or tool separate from how we recognize the process or profession. In the future, will system designers be different than computer programmers?
Hello Jennifer
Thanks for your question. I think that we will still have designers that will teach the AI what to do along with computer programmers unless programming gets easier. I envision the designer training AI like a child and the computer engineer gives it the algorithms. But I don’t think we will need engineers to do them anymore in this case. Designers will be able to set parameters for the AI on the front end where it will not be so complicated. I think engineers will be needed to create the software to set those parameters and then the designer will take over. It’s like working with Al the AI at work and you are just training it like you would any human. The software engineer just designed ways for you interact with Al. Maybe all we would need to do is talk to Al and he’ll learn or not. Lol
Hi Andrea:
Your A3 is fantastic. I enjoy that you were able to apply components of your Movable Feast and other sections of your blog to design this A3. It clearly shows that you were keeping track of your learning throughout the course. You have taken a rational approach to what you believe the future will be concerning AI’s place within the workforce. As well, you have also represented your argument in a way that is not alarmist of disruption that AI may have, but look at the realities and opportunities that may emerge. It’s credible and is consistent with the forecasts that experts in the field have been discussing about AI.
Hello Brittany,
Thank you for your evaluation of my A3. I took the opportunity to highlight the radical change that experts and I see coming and even tried to mention a way that we should prepare for it. This process of evaluating and analyzing what AI means for the design industry and design education was huge and a bit confusing. It seemed that I was able to pull it together based on your evaluation. This topic was dense, and I even had to take out some sections because it was way too long. I am going to insert my references in case anyone wanted to dive further in this topic.
I noticed that you specialized in policy innovation and technologies. What role do you see AI taking in innovative policy initiatives? I believe AI would have a huge impact on policy reform. Please share your thoughts.