Previously: The Designerly Leap Trilogy Part I Three Pillars in AI and Big Data Algorithm, modelling, and data are the three foundations behind AI, big data, and analytics in general. We create a model, write algorithms to describe the internal mechanisms of the model, and then use data to train and evolve the model for it…
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Designerly Thought of the Day #20180809
Although a bit hyped, design systems signals the dawn of automation in design. As principles, best practices, patterns, and libraries stabilize and evolve (far more often than revolutionizing), tactical and functional design tasks will by operated by AI machines (only curated by humans) and become highly automated. Design as a human profession naturally shifts to…
Does Analytics Generate Insights?
The tricky thing about analytics is that, it doesn’t really generate insights, and insights are largely irrelevant to the goal of analytics. Insight is a human diet, cooked with human judgement. The goal of analytics is to support decision making. If the analytics doesn’t support decision making, then it doesn’t have to be. When the…
