Read Along, formerly known as Bolo, is a mobile app available globally that helps children learn how to read anytime and anywhere, using just their voice. Centered host Di Dang meets with the Read Along team in Hyderabad, to discuss how they design with voice UI and machine learning to help solve child literacy.

In this Machine Learning Tech Talks session, Senior UX Designer Di Dang unpacks best practices for ML product decisions using the People + AI Guidebook. Learn how UX considerations can impact your AI/ML-based product as much as the technical feasibility itself.

In Toronto, Centered host Di Dang meets with BenchSci, a startup using AI to help biomedical researchers discover new drug treatments. Join us to learn how they follow a human-centered AI design process.

By blending digital information with our physical environment, we create an immersive experience that enhances how we see and interact with the world around us. In 60 seconds, Di Dang and Diane Wang cover how to prototype for augmented reality!

Curious about designing human-centered AI products? Our People + AI Research (PAIR) team will share insights from the new People + AI Guidebook, a toolkit for making AI product decisions. We’ll walk through a real case study of how a product team used the Guidebook to design a new AI-driven feature, and you’ll learn how to assess whether a problem is a good fit for ML, collect representative training data, and help users understand how to interact with AI systems.

For DevFest this year, a few familiar faces from Google and the community came together to show you how to build an app using multiple Google Developer tools to detect crop diseases, from scratch, in just a few minutes.

All Tech Is Human brings together a broad, inclusive, and multidisciplinary group of people to tackle thorny social tech problem and help co-create a more thoughtful future towards technology. We have a tech problem. We need a societal solution. We don't just need to change the technology, we need to change the process of how technology is developed and deployed.

Hear from three nonprofit leaders as they discuss how they apply user experience research and design principles to help develop impactful and responsible AI products, highlighting their learnings on topics including user trust and explainability. This panel of Google AI Impact Challenge grantees features Quill.org Founder & CEO Peter Gault, Wadhwani AI Product Manager Dhruvin Vora, and Skilllab Human-Centered Design Specialist Azza El Hayek in a conversation moderated by Di Dang, an Emerging Tech Design Advocate at Google.

Introducing Di Dang as a new host on Centered! Travel around the world with our hosts and Google Design Advocates, Yasmine Evjen and Di Dang, as they explore the intersection of design, product, and people.