Explore My Active Learning
I am a huge advocate of always learning & sharing. Even more so in the age of AI. Sometimes it’s formal courses and other times it’s quick youtube videos.
Latest Education
Business Opportunities & Applications of Generative AI (In Progress)
Stanford Online + HAI (Human Centered AI)
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I’m enjoying Stanford’s course, with instructors like Andrew Ng, Michael Bernstein and more, I know I’m getting a solid foundation for concepts. Andrew Ng’s starts out the course with his inspiring philosophy that AI won’t replace humans, but rather "people that use it will replace people that don't.”
I appreciate the analogy that AI is like the new electricity - as Erik Brynjolfsson walked us through the inefficient way factories first attempted to use electricity by just swapping out the steam engine with an electric motor. It took rebuilding factories from the ground up and radically reframing the approach (stop using one big motor and instead use many smaller motors and optimize the factory layout).
I’m still in progress on the course. More insights coming soon.
IEC 62366-1: Usability Engineering of Medical Devices
TÜV SÜD
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I earned this certificate while working a Proprio on our medical device. This gave great framework for satisfying FDA usability engineering guidelines with Formative and Summative studies. At Proprio as I led UX, I had to find ways to maximize user feedback, so separating out these larger scale formal regulatory tests and fast moving informal iterative tests became a core strategy.
Figma Re-training
After being a manager for 5 years, my Figma skills became rusty. Here are some misc places that have been helping me out. Especially auto-layout and their new AI tools.
Figma auto layout isn’t intuitive but Figma’s trainer Lauren Byrne gives great analogies.
DesignerUp shows E2E design workflow using AI tools at every step from user research to mockups to implementation.
Aliena Cai gives a fast overview of Figma’s AI tools.