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It partners with organisations to create human-centred digital experiences, combining strategy, design, engineering, behavioural insight and technical expertise. Its work spans discovery through launch and ongoing improvement, with an emphasis on products that deliver meaningful outcomes for people and businesses. 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Activities can include market research, stakeholder interviews, collaborative co-creation, in-depth research, concept and prototype testing, and technology considerations. 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Its work includes AI interface and experience design, model selection, proof-of-concept development, testing and guardrail development, multimodal AI, on-device products, AI search and summarisation workflows, internal copilots, agentic workflows, and retrieval-augmented generation. The approach puts people at the centre: experiences are designed to be adaptive, explainable, focused, and responsible, with safeguards that consider risk, bias, accountability, and environmental impact. Related engagements include Spark, a one-day workshop for generating and prioritising AI use cases; Inspire, a two-to-three-week engagement to catalyse AI tooling adoption; and Mine, an engagement of four or more weeks that explores existing data for new experience opportunities and AI readiness.","pricing":{},"features":[{"name":"AI interface and experience design","value":"Design Intuitive AI Experiences","valueDescription":"Make AI capabilities easier for people to understand and use through intentionally designed interfaces and product experiences."},{"name":"AI readiness and data mining","value":"Uncover AI Opportunities","valueDescription":"Explore readiness and existing data to identify potential AI experience opportunities and prepare to unlock hidden value."},{"name":"AI testing and guardrail development","value":"Develop AI Tests And Safeguards","valueDescription":"Test AI experiences and establish safeguards that address risks and support responsible use."},{"name":"Adaptive AI experiences","value":"Adapt Experiences To Users","valueDescription":"Help experiences respond to users’ context, needs, and behaviours rather than treating every interaction the same way."},{"name":"Explainable AI experiences","value":"Explain AI Decisions","valueDescription":"Give users context about AI-generated outcomes and decisions so they can understand, assess, or intervene in an experience."},{"name":"AI tooling adoption","value":"Accelerate AI Tool Adoption","valueDescription":"Support organisational adoption of AI tooling so teams can make more of their investment."},{"name":"Internal copilots and agentic workflows","value":"Design Copilots And Agentic Workflows","valueDescription":"Design AI-enabled tools and workflows for internal use, including copilots and agentic experiences."},{"name":"Model selection and proof-of-concept development","value":"Select Models And Build Proofs Of Concept","valueDescription":"Explore AI opportunities through model selection and proof-of-concept development."},{"name":"AI use-case generation and prioritisation","value":"Generate And Prioritise AI Use Cases","valueDescription":"Explore potential AI use cases and identify which to focus on, helping organisations reduce uncertainty and move forward quickly."},{"name":"AI search and summarisation workflows","value":"Build Search And Summarisation","valueDescription":"Create AI-powered workflows for searching and summarising information."},{"name":"Multimodal AI development","value":"Develop Multimodal AI","valueDescription":"Build AI experiences that support multimodal interactions and use cases."},{"name":"Retrieval-augmented generation and knowledge base development","value":"Develop RAG Systems And Knowledge Bases","valueDescription":"Build retrieval-augmented generation systems and knowledge bases for AI experiences."},{"name":"On-device and local model product development","value":"Build On-Device AI Products","valueDescription":"Develop AI-enabled products using on-device or local models."}],"marketCategories":[{"name":"AI Development Services","url":"https://nowen.ai/category/ai-development-services"}]},{"name":"Play Thinking","anchor":"product-play-thinking","type":"Service","url":"https://ustwo.com/play-thinking/","summary":"Create meaningful, rewarding digital products that support engagement, adoption, advocacy, and community.","description":"Play Thinking applies fundamental game design principles and playful experiences to digital products. 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