This course explores the intersection of AI, creativity, and interaction design, moving beyond the hype to uncover meaningful applications. Students will be challenged to rethink human-AI collaboration, and use machine intelligence to design future products, interfaces, and experiences. Through hands-on prototyping and experimentation, we will explore new interaction models, synthetic perception, and AI-driven design processes.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has leapt from the realm of sci-fi and research to real world application with incredible speed. But as with any rapidly evolving technology, it brings many challenges in implementation. Sorting through a noisy, hype-filled landscape to find truly valuable use cases requires a discerning eye, but also a creative perspective that can imagine radically different approaches to familiar problems. In this course, we’ll work collectively to design and prototype a series of future products and objects built around different shades of artificial intelligence.
Prerequisites
No previous knowledge or specific software is required, but students should familiarise themselves with at least one existing generative AI model (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, etc.) prior to attending.
How you’ll learn
During this course, participants will develop an interaction design project around artificial intelligence technology. Working alone or in a group, you will go from concept to prototype, culminating in a working demo that will be presented at the end of the course, along with a depiction of its relative design process. In so doing, participants will directly experience some of the primary challenges of creating alongside other intelligences.
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