O'mara

At the start of this year, I decided to expand the scope of my work beyond traditional design. This comes after more than 11 years of building visual systems, working on design automation workflows and exploring how AI could change creative production, I kept running into problems that couldn’t be solved with design alone. I wanted to understand what was happening under the hood. So I spent the last several months reading research papers, learning about machine learning, studying how computers understand and interpret visual information, and exploring where my experience as a designer could contribute to some of the open problems in applied visual AI research. Along the way, I’ve been building products, experimenting with different models, training some of mine and working through some pretty interesting technical challenges. It’s been a process of connecting two worlds I find increasingly difficult to separate: design and machine intelligence. I’m bringing all of that work together in a new portfolio. This is a reflection of how my practice has evolved, the things I’m building, technical problems I’m solving, and how I think about the future of design as AI continues to change it. There’s a lot more to come.