AI and creativity in corporate structures
This was the headline of our panel at the Global Design Thinking Alliance Conference at the Hasso Plattner Institute. I had the pleasure to ask Heike van Geel, Gerhard Pfau and Clemens Buss curious questions. As we are mostly used to consum content – I want to change the mode and invite you to some food for thought.
Here we go:
💡 With AI we enter the innovation game via feasibility, meaning the technological possibilities are the trigger for innovation. What does that mean for the Design Thinking approach?
💡 For designers not much has changed – yet everything is different. You need to understand LLMs or off the shelf solutions. You suddenly have to better understand Lamas or Mistrals ;O). You can create new solutions which are much more dependent on good data. – What does data dependency do to creativity?
💡 Costs for LLMs can easily become an innovation show stopper – How do you deal with that?
💡 Will we in the future design for AI?
💡 We need design critique in a good design process. How does this look like with AI?
💡 Design Thinking often deals with messy problems and challenges. How does AI help to make the innovation work more efficient?
💡 You do not need years of education e.g. in coding anymore. With the help of AI you get results much faster. Which skills do we as humans still need in the future?
💡 Will all innovators become prompting experts?
💡 How do you drive AI adoption?
Design Thinking and AI – A global Perspective
It´s time to become more human.
It´s time to get into digital technologies.
It´s time to think.
It´s time to reinvent what could be.
With Design Thinking in the hearts and minds and many many global and local challenges at our hands we discussed and exchanged on Design Thinking and AI. We all see the big potential AI has for innovation, transformation and education. Many have already included AI into their study programs to experiment and learn.
* AI functions as an augmentation of human capabilities.
* AI will change the way we teach and coach. It will provide a lot of content and humans can focus more on mentoring, teaching and inspiring other humans.
* AI will challenge us to focus even more on empathy, critical thinking, creative thinking, values and ethics.
* Team work makes the dream work – with all the technological possibilities at hand people need to be able to work in a team and get things done.
But what is also true: the big shift and progress AI brings to us, it is not the same game for everyone. Some are still working on providing a steady internet connection, while others have that but are excluded from the latest AI model role outs. Much to do to close the digital divide in order to use AI for the better of humanity.
