The Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University focuses on Human-centered AI (HAI), which considers how AI can benefit people and society, and must address AI capabilities and their impact on users and stakeholders.
In the age of AI, personas need to include AI as a participant in the user journey, analyzing AI by its 'demographics' such as strengths, weaknesses, and interaction habits.
Designing AI-native experiences requires mapping parallel AI journeys, understanding when AI should lead, when humans should lead, and how they can collaborate effectively.
AI demographics include learning architecture, data diet, inference capabilities, interaction style, and rate of adaptation, influencing how AI systems function.
Various archetypal relationships between humans and AI systems emerge, including AI as a background enhancer, collaborative partner, autonomous agent, and learning apprentice.
Effective AI-native product experiences involve creating domain-specific AI personas tailored to particular use cases, much like how human personas are tailored across different products.
The future of product design lies in integrating human and machine intelligence effectively to design synchronized product-service ecosystems that leverage the strengths of both AI and humans.
Creating dual personas for both human users and AI systems can lead to more effective, intuitive, and synchronized product-service ecosystems in the evolving landscape of AI-native design.
Successful companies in the AI-native design era will understand how to build productive, evolving relationships between humans and AI by recognizing the qualities and weaknesses of each.