The Sweet Spot
On software development, engineering leadership, machine learning and all things shiny.

User-Centered Design

2019
December
Integrating Personas in User-Centered ML Model Development

For all the toil that went into developing the pipeline and deep learning model for my ML baby monitor project, I discovered that my model didn't actually solve the problem at hand. This kind of gap exists in the real world of ML development as well, and there's a critical insight from the field of User-Centered Design that could be the key to bridging it.