Clara Kliman-Silver: Connecting UX and Artificial Intelligence

Talk UX 2017
Aug 22, 2017 · 2 min read
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Clara Kliman-Silver is an UX designer at Bonsai, an artificial intelligence platform company, where she designs tools for building and visualizing artificial intelligence. She is also a co-organizer of Ladies That UX’s San Francisco chapter. Clara specializes in cognitive science and has previously worked on UX projects in a variety of domains, including healthcare, finance, data visualization, and public transit. At 2017 TalkUX, Taipei, she will share her experiences about “How UX helps developers build AI”. Let's have a quick chat with her!


Q: How does UX be applied in your office or your familiar industry?
I led UX projects across multiple products, using research methods to inform the design process. Lately, I’ve been working on visualizing artificial intelligence and communicating how machines learn.

Q: What is the most valuable insight or most difficult part about implementing UX in your job?
Artificial intelligence is an incredibly complex space, and many of the people who want to work with it are still learning the basics. Much of my research has focused on how users think about AI, what they understand, what’s confusing, and how our tools can help them work with concepts that are new to them.

Q: In the past one year, what is the most memorable story you’d like to share with us?
We were testing a couple of different data visualizations, some of which were extremely complex. Over time, we realized that some of our graphs were completely incomprehensible — one participant actually thought the graph was a piece of artwork, rather than a data visualization. Happily, we were able to channel the feedback into improving our designs.

AI has become a popular issue and probably may soon be prevalence in our life. The combination of UX and AI will definitely bring a more convenience and humanity life to the human beings. Wanna meet Clara in person? Get a ticket for 2017 TalkUX ASAP!


About Bonsai

Image: Bonsai

Bonsai provides solutions to a better AI experience by programming the balance between human and machine intelligence, including the field of robotics, automatic vehicles and smart sensor.

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