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Hello TUX!
A reminder that tomorrow we have a Sanders Series Invited Lecture by Prof. Ranjitha Kumar.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Ali, Daniel, and Tovi
Sanders Series Invited Lecture: Prof. Ranjitha Kumar
*February 12, 2019. Autodesk MaRS IDEaS Lab @ 661 University Ave., Ground Floor*
Lunch reception begins at 12:30 pm. Presentation begins at 1:00 pm.
*Data-Driven Design: Beyond A/B Testing*
A/B testing has become the de facto standard for optimizing design, helping designers craft more effective user experiences by leveraging data. A typical A/B test involves dividing user traffic between two experimental conditions (A and B), and looking for statistically significant differences in performance indicators (e.g., conversion rates) between them. In this talk, I’ll introduce three other data-driven methods — complementary to A/B testing — that can tie design choices to desired outcomes. Mining interactiondata from existing designscan provide comparative insights about patterns found in the wild, exposing designers to a greater space of divergent solutions than A/B testing. Lightweight prototypes with tight user feedback loops, or experimentation engines, can bootstrap product design involving technologies that are actively being developed (e.g., artificial intelligence, virtual/augmented reality), where both use cases and capabilities are not well-understood. Finally, generative modelstrained on a set of effective design examples can support predictive workflows that allow designers to rapidly prototype new, performant solutions.
*Bio*
Ranjitha Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where she leads the Data-Driven Design group. She is the recipient of a 2018 NSF CAREER award, and UIUC’s 2018 C.W. Gear Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. Her research has won best paper awards/nominations at premier conferences in HCI, and is supported by grants from Google, Amazon, and Adobe. She received her PhD from the Computer Science Department at Stanford University in 2014, and was formerly the Chief Scientist at Apropose, Inc., a data-driven design company she founded that was backed by Andreessen Horowitz and New Enterprise Associates.
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*TUX is made possible by the support of our sponsors, Steven Sanders, Autodesk, *
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