“What might our interactions with algorithmic systems look like if they were designed from feminist values?”
Welcome to the webpage for the Feminist UX of AI project. Led by Nadia Piet as part of the RAAIT program, this design research project uses speculative design to imagine a UX of AI informed by feminist HCI principles and beyond commercial design conventions. Through participatory workshops, we co-created over 20 speculative wireframes (provotypes) to serve as catalysts for critical reflection and dialogue while fostering a pluralistic approach and collective agency in shaping the design of AI systems.
<aside> 👉🏽 Browse here to explore the library of provotypes, workshop facilitation kit, paper, learn more about the project, or create your own provotype and join the convo.
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Submit your Provotype to the Library
More about the Project / Media Kit
The provotype library is a co-created and community-led collection of 20+ provotypes that imagine, provoke and propose alternative ways of interacting with AI systems informed by Feminist HCI principles.
Each idea is framed as a what-if question and supported by a speculative wireframe that illustrates the idea visuallyP
Their aim is not to prescribe ‘patterns’ or ‘best practices’, but to open up potential pathways for design and conversation beyond the limited controls, familiar affordances, and commercial design norms of current AI interfaces. Explore the collection below, dig deeper within their pages to learn more, or submit your own.
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Preview of the provotypes
You’re invited to contribute to the library and the broader research! How?
This project was led by Nadia Piet, as part of the Responsible Applied AI (RAAIT) program of Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, under the guidance of Maaike Harbers (professor in AI & Society), and supported by the AIxDESIGN community.
<aside> 📍 If you’ve participated or contributed to the workshops or to the project in any capacity and would like to be attributed, please leave a comment here or email me and I will add you.
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Project & Research Lead: Nadia Piet
Design: Christoph Bohne (design system), Arda Awais (wireframes + project assets)
Support: Malak Sadek (research), Aleksandra Naydenova (workshop kit), Udita Gowdety (copy)
Supervisor: Maaike Harbers (professor in AI & Society)
Funder: Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences / RAAIT (Responsible Applied AI)
Workshop Participants & Contributors: Tara Monheim, students of ELISAVA MA Design for Responsible AI ‘23-’24 cohort, students of Hogeschool Rotterdam CMD year 3 that chose this elective, all workshop participants
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This project runs under Creative-Commons License: (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Questions, thoughts, ideas about any of the above? You can reach me at hello [at] nadiapiet.com.