With the workshop facilitation kit, you or anyone can host their own Feminist UX of AI workshop session. We hope that by making the materials open-sourcing available, it can serve as a format for others to instigate critical reflections on AI interfaces and to imagine otherwise.

Workshop details

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Workshop: Re-imagining Algorithmic Interactions

We often take for granted the ways in which we, as users, are invited or limited in interacting with AI systems that shape our everyday realities through its UX/UI.

In this workshop, we take a pro-active, critical, and playful approach to re-imagining algorithmic interactions. You will critically interrogate familiar AI interfaces (such as those of Netflix, ChatGPT, and other common apps,) and its affordances, and re-imagine what else they could look like when centering feminist values over platform profitability.

Departing from your observations and POV, you will create a design provocation with a what-if statement and speculative wireframe that illustrates other possibilities.

A blend of research, critical reflection, discussion, and speculative design, the workshop encourages participants to actively engage with themes of AI design.

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<aside> <img src="/icons/arrow-right_orange.svg" alt="/icons/arrow-right_orange.svg" width="40px" /> Skills:

• UX / UI / HCI
• Critical thinking
• Speculative design
• Wireframing

Learning objectives:

• Develop a critical perspective on the role of interface and interaction design and UX/UI as a potential space for intervention
• Have a better understanding of UI/UX design challenges for AI products + services including calibrating trust, graceful failure, explainability, and feedback mechanisms
• Know about feminist values and principles in the context of HCI
• Get familiar with speculative design as a method to individually and collaboratively imagine, visualize, and communicate alternative possibilities
• Practice expressing a novel point-of-view
• Do basic wireframing </aside>

Hosting IRL (in-person) vs URL (online)

The workshop is set up for either in-person / on-location hosting as well as online / remote. In case you’re running the workshop online, you can use the Miro board (see template for you to copy below). If you’re running the workshop IRL, you can do the same or simply use pens, paper, and post-its.

Materials

The provided materials:

1. a Google Slides deck with slides to guide the entire process
2. an optional template on Miro for your participants to work and document throghout
3. a UI component kit on Figma to support wireframing

Part I: Slides

1. Click here to grab the slide deck
2. Go to File > Make a copy (all slides)
3. Make it your own, adapt as you see fit, and good luck hosting your session!

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Uv_bqxWTyTnpgnSknEuGaY79M2OS3-sfM5KT_HIbCFc/edit?usp=sharing

Part II: Miro

• Open the Miro on the ‘Workshop Kit’ section

  https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVMl9JHlY=/?moveToWidget=3458764591563174014&cot=14

• Duplicate the entire section - either within this shared Miro or into your own Miro board

  

• Set up a ‘workspace’ for each group - copying the template as many times as you need