Homework: Reflect on Readings
Background
As part of this course, you will be given assigned readings. These readings will focus on design, AI, and ethics. You must take the time to reflect on each week’s readings to fully comprehend the material and be fully prepared for the following week’s course.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this activity, you will better grasp the readings assigned for this week. You will have summarized the main concepts and ideas in the papers using your own words. This will enable you to work with the materials more effectively as the course progresses.
Instructions
- Create an entry for each question below in your notebook, with an answer in your own words.
- Questions for Bowles (2020)
- The author criticizes the lean startup “ideology.” Name one specific problem that they think is caused by Lean.
- The author also sees issues with traditional user-centered design. Again, name one specific problem with UCD, according to Bowles.
- The author mentions several recommendations for making product management more ethically responsible. Which of his recommendations could you apply in your work in this course and beyond?
- Questions for Hill (2018)
- The paper talks about “strategic design”. How would you summarize this idea?
- The paper argues for using strategic design in what we in this course call urban AI. How would you summarize this argument?
- The paper gives several examples of strategic design projects aimed at urban AI. Select one example and summarize what the project is about.
- For the example you selected, also answer why it is an example of strategic design.
Product
The assigned readings should be summarized in your own words and captured in your notebook as a collection of notes, each containing the summary of one idea.
Follow-up
Generated ideas will be used in next week’s session.