AI Design: Being Human

Designing intelligent products that people will love presents a fundamentally new design challenge, since our current understanding of user experience and interaction needs to expand to include products and experiences that appear to be alive. Brian will show you a variety of techniques for making and testing smart products in a very fast, low-cost manner, and also how to test your concepts on real people in order to determine the best way to move forward with your ideas.

You’ll learn what the new design challenges are, such as: narrative storytelling, emotional expectations, personality and character design, and other factors that will be key to the success of your product. This is a new realm in product design. It’s no longer enough to have the best technology; you must also be able to create the most compelling and desirable human experiences.

About the instructor:

Brian Kane (http://briankane.net) is a designer and artist currently living in Petaluma, CA. He received a BFA in Painting from RISD (http://risd.edu) in 1987, where he taught from 2012 through 2017. For 30 years, his sculpture, interactive, and video work has shown internationally in museums and galleries, and Kane’s pioneering real time video sampling techniques have influenced a generation of media artists. He's been a creative director in the online gaming industry and a usability and user experience consultant for the financial and e-commerce industries.

Recent exhibitions include Nuit Blanche, Toronto, MACBA, Barcelona, HDADD+, MFA Boston, #11.Art, Museo Nacional do Complexo Cultural da Republica, Brazil, Memery, MASS MoCA, People in Space, Shanghai World Expo, Late at Tate, Tate Britain, Big Chill, U.K., MediaLive, Boulder MoCA, and a 2010 solo show at Murphy and Dine, New York, NY. Brian's also the guy that hacked Alexa into a Big Mouth Billy Bass. You get 50 extra points for reading this far.

Discovery Channel segment:
https://www.facebook.com/hdadd/videos/10158212528900265/

Science Channel segment:
https://www.facebook.com/hdadd/videos/vb.655185264/10158778210155265/