AI-Design Sprint
The AI-Design Sprint I led at Techfestival Copenhagen and the global digital festival The Conference in Malmø were a success — participants developed AI solutions for the fashion industry in an extremely short time. Days later, together with Hyper Island, I led an AI-Design Sprint in Santiago Chile for the company Grupo Falabella with 60 participants developing AI solutions for their travel business and their retail fashion business. The participants were in love with their developed AI solutions.
Since then I met with people in businesses sharing what happened at the AI-Design Sprints and what they could get out of participating in one. So I put together these couple of slides that help illustrate that.
The AI-Design Sprint is not a single event but part of an AI implementation process. The first element is an introduction to AI in form of an interactive presentation. The AI-Design Sprint is the hands-on element, empowering participants to develop their AI solution for their business. After the AI-Design Sprint we continue to assist businesses in bringing their AI solution to life together with our partners.
Now, the purpose of the introduction to AI presentation is to illustrate the wide area of AI. AI surely is more than chatbots, for example (and some chatbots are not necessarily AI). Furthermore in each area I present the cases that shape that individual area currently.
Getting to the AI-Design Sprint: one purpose of the sprint is to map out AI. We do that with about 100 AI technology cards that are grouped and organised. “Mapping out” is a principle we use in many areas to handle complexity, like for understanding a complex train system.
The AI-Design Sprint is a funnel that guides participants from having many options to use AI to arrive at the AI solution most relevant for their business. That’s the magic.
Participants do so by matching the individual AI technology with before identified user needs. Simple as that.
We might all observe organisations that reach out to the latest technology because it’s new or because some business cases promise an impact, only to realise later that the solution isn’t relevant and the impact is not as expected. Instead, key is to first identify what users need most in your business area — then choose the individual AI technology that enables you to serve that. This is the AI solution most relevant for you.
At the AI-Design Sprint we do that in a very hands-on way using about 100 (100!) AI technology cards to match with your user need.
Here are some examples of the 100 AI cards. They make the AI-Design Sprint to a playful and hands-on experience.
The tangible outcome of an AI-Design Sprint is that you developed your AI solution for your business. This solution not only adds AI to an old system but centres your business around AI for best customer experience.
An AI-Design Sprint is also a way to reach buy in, for your team to own the AI project generating the motivation necessary to follow through with the project.
After the AI-Design Sprint we provide tools to evaluate your AI solution and help you along the way to make AI reality for you in your business.
This is us. Our team is a mix of Service Designer, Co-Founder of a successful startup, and a Creative Director — we are not AI gurus, the area of AI is too wide for that, instead our expertise is the application of AI for businesses using design tools and processes. We provide tools for businesses to develop their AI solution.
That’s it.
In case you missed our open AI-Design Sprint at one of the festivals, we are planning the next open AI-Design Sprint in Copenhagen. Give us a shout if you’d like to experience one.
