Nodes of Design#45: UX for Machine Learning by Riya Thosar

Riya Thosar is a passionate product design leader with experience building, growing and nurturing exceptional multi-disciplinary design teams. With over 20 years of global industry experience, she designed consumer and enterprise products for a wide range of industries and global audiences. Currently, she is the Director of Product Design at SAP and previously worked at LinkedIn, Netapp, Cognizant and Human factors international, where she had directed many large-scale enterprise product design programs.

With her passion for mentoring and design evangelism, she routinely volunteers to coach high-school students on a career in design and conduct workshops on human-centred and collaborative problem solving using Design Thinking methodologies.

In this episode, Riya had shared great insights on UX for ML-based products and services and shared with us the process and techniques to understand user emotion and user expectation in these scenarios.  We also discussed how we could leverage machine learning to provide a great user experience and constantly scale the product.  

Takeaways: What is ML-based user experience design, Process involved in crafting ML-based experiences, Different ways of scaling the ML-based products and services. 

Episode transcripts and Storylines - http://bit.ly/34ZHFvx

Riya Thosar recommends books:

100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People by Susan Weinschenk 

Hooked by Nir Eyal

Communication Arts 

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