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Archive: Design Mining the Web

2,152 views · Published 13 November 2013 · 57:29 · Indexed 12 November 2026

Channel: UW Video · 2013 · Education

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The Web has transformed the nature of creative work. For the first time, millions of people have a direct outlet for sharing their creations with the world. As a result, the Web has become the largest repository of design knowledge in human history, and the ensuing democratization of design has created a critical feedback loop, engendering a new culture of reuse and remixing. 
The means and methods designers use to employ to draw on prior work, however, remain mostly informal and ad hoc. How can content producers find relevant examples amongst hundreds of millions of possibilities and leverage existing design practice to inform and improve their creations? In this episode, P.h.D. candidate at Standford University, Ranjitha Kumar, explores data-driven techniques for working with examples at scale during the design process, automating search and curation, enabling rapid retargeting, and learning generative probabilistic models to support new design interactions. Knowledge discovery and data mining have revolutionized informatics; in this talk, Kumar discusses what we can learn from mining design.

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