The portfolio of Adam Lukasik a Designer and Artist living in California

In 2018 I began exploring new ways to utilize generative neural networks to multiply a person's creative output. I worked closely with a fellow designer/data scientist to setup a test bed generative adversarial neural network. With this test bed we generated a number of visual outputs all based on TV shows such. This was simply a proof of concept though, my real interest was to create a tool that would allow a designer to have a generative feedback loop with the machine. To that end I curated a data set of ~2500 images of chairs to use to train the network. With that model we were able to create a simple interface that allowed a designer to generate random chairs then remix and iterate based on styles they liked. These chairs were always novel and the outputs had immense variety. 

A Generative Tool for Designers Using a GAN

In 2019 IDEO Colab began work with the gates foundation. We were awarded a grant to design resources for those in highly rural areas to gain access to financial services that could help lift them out of poverty. The grant is for the ensuing 5 years, this page reflects the most up to date state of the work and my involvement from the initial stages in 2019 and onward. 

I kicked off the project with a discovery trip in India, our first country of focus (the next one likely being Indonesia). We spent 2 weeks developing partnerships and doing design research in rural areas in and around Tamil Nadu and Delhi. My role focused on the design research and synthesizing all the new systems we were becoming exposed to. Specifically I focused on unravelling the complex requirements of operating an "agent network" that serviced rural banking. Once back in the United States we spent some time as a team developing project briefs for short exploratory design sprints. One of these included design principles for low literacy. 

Last Mile Money with the Gates Foundation