Business and UX Strategy
Better data visualization won’t convince me when to play ⚽️ again
Presenting data and evidence isn’t the same thing as providing indispensable decision support, especially when your insights are experienced in a software application with no Powerpoint deck, narrator, or intimate storytelling.
Designing for AI (UX, UI)
This is an ongoing list of links to articles, slide decks, toolkits, and other resources around designing AI user experiences. I will keep this updated. 7 Steps to AI Products – Allie K. Miller (slide deck) UX in the Age of AI: Where Does Design Fit In? – Carol Smith (slide deck) AIMeets.design PDF tool kit (Nadia Piet) … Read more Designing for AI (UX, UI)
(8) reasons why data visualization training for your BI team may not increase analytics adoption
Customers want simple, well-designed decision support tools and UX’s that are actionable. Businesses want to see value from data and adoption of data-driven decision making. However, the UX that is afforded to is often simply a byproduct of the analytics team’s engineering, or, at best, “data viz” efforts—and it’s not working. A decade later, success rates for data projects remain unchanged, despite vendor/BI tooling improvements. What are BI/analytics teams still missing? Design.
Humans – The Weak Link in your ML / AI Strategy?
In many cases, machine learning needs to be deployed to augment human decision making, not automate it. What are you doing to account for this dependency on the success of your data product?
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Self-reflecting on #BLM, the makeup of my podcast guests to date, racism, and the responsibilities of consultants with platforms and audiences in fighting injustice.
$1M spent on a predictive model/data science w/ $0 value and no user engagement?
How to avoid spending 6-8 months on a technically right, effectively wrong model. Are you successful with ML if nobody uses your solution, model, or application?
(6) Ways to Sanitize Your Data Product, Dashboard Visuals or Analytics due to Covid-19
Covid-19 presents a major disruption to our lives and businesses. However, sanitizing your hands isn’t the only thing you data leaders need to be considering. Your data product, dashboards, or UI may also need to be cleaned up. No hard-to-find Clorox wipes needed; just some good design thinking centered around your customers.
UX Designers & Data Scientists: United in Job Misery?
My conversations and research suggest that individual contributor UX designers and data scientists share one thing in common: it’s often a challenge to “get to do the job I was hired for.” People, process, and political roadblocks at every turn—so what can you do about it if this is you? And if you’re managing these people, what are you doing to ensure these people don’t leave?
Empathy & Human-Centered Design in a World with the Coronavirus
It takes more than math and technical skills to develop simple, useful, and usable decision support solutions. It starts with problem clarity, customer empathy and…