Today’s top AI & design classes
A thoughtful gallery of 50 live and self-paced classes from the tier-one platforms — Maven, Domestika, IDEO U, Coursera, School of Motion, and more. Curated daily.
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IDEO U·Cohort-based·Starts Monthly cohorts
Foundations in Design Thinking
with IDEO Faculty
IDEO's certificate program covering user research, prototyping, and storytelling — the human-centered fundamentals that give AI-generated work meaning.
Why this is here · Problem framing and user empathy are exactly what AI tools can't do for you.
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Maven·Cohort-based·Starts Rolling cohorts
Building AI Products with OpenAI
Ship a working AI product in four weeks — covers API integration, prompt design, evals, and shipping UX patterns that make AI features feel trustworthy.
Why this is here · Designers who can ship end-to-end AI features are the most in-demand hires in 2025.
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Coursera·Self-paced
Generative AI for Everyone
with Andrew Ng
Andrew Ng's foundational course on how generative AI works, what it can and can't do, and how to apply it to real projects and workflows.
Why this is here · Designers need a working mental model of LLMs before they can design with or around them.
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School of Motion·Self-paced
AI for Motion Designers
Explore how motion designers are using Runway, Kling, and Sora alongside After Effects to accelerate storyboarding, style frames, and finished animation.
Why this is here · Video-gen tools are reshaping motion pipelines — this bridges traditional craft with new AI workflows.
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Character Animation Bootcamp
with Morgan Williams
Twelve-week deep dive into the twelve principles of animation and character performance — the craft foundation AI video tools still can't fake.
Why this is here · Directing AI motion output requires deep animation literacy that only rigorous training builds.
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Reforge·Cohort-based·Starts Seasonal cohorts
AI for Product Design
Reforge's program on designing AI-native products — covering LLM UX patterns, evaluation, trust, and the new interaction models emerging around agents and copilots.
Why this is here · Deep dive into the interaction patterns that will define the next decade of product design.
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AI for Creative Problem Solving
with IDEO Faculty
IDEO's framework for using generative AI as a creative collaborator across brainstorming, synthesis, and concept development in human-centered design projects.
Why this is here · Teaches the mindset shift from AI-as-tool to AI-as-thinking-partner within a design process.
- 08
Awwwards Academy·Live workshop·Starts Rolling sessions
Figma Config: Advanced AI Workflows
Awwwards-curated masterclass on combining Figma, Midjourney, and AI plugins to accelerate high-end web and brand design work.
Why this is here · Award-winning studios share how they actually blend AI into premium client deliverables.
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Domestika·Self-paced
AI Illustration with Midjourney
Learn to develop a consistent visual style, art-direct Midjourney with precision, and integrate AI illustration into editorial, brand, and product work.
Why this is here · Art direction of AI image tools is now a distinct, hireable design skill.
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Section·Cohort-based·Starts Monthly cohorts
Mastering AI for Product Managers & Designers
Section's flagship AI upskilling program for product teams, covering prompt engineering, AI product patterns, and how to ship AI features responsibly.
Why this is here · Cross-functional AI fluency is what separates designers who lead AI features from those who decorate them.
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Frontend Masters·Self-paced
Typography Fundamentals
Deep-dive into type systems, hierarchy, and pairing — the craft fundamentals that determine whether AI-assisted layouts feel amateur or considered.
Why this is here · AI can generate layouts but not taste — typography judgment is what makes designers uncopyable.
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Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT
with Jules White
Vanderbilt University's popular course on structured prompting techniques, personas, and prompt patterns for getting reliable output from LLMs.
Why this is here · Prompting is now a core design skill — this is the most rigorous free foundation available.
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Class Central·Aggregated / self-paced
AI Product Management Certification
Class Central's curated catalog of AI courses across Duke, DeepLearning.AI, and Google — filter by hands-on projects for designers who want technical depth.
Why this is here · Best single index for finding free and low-cost AI courses vetted by real learner reviews.
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Google UX Design Professional Certificate
with Google Career Certificates
A seven-course UX foundation covering research, wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing across real portfolio projects.
Why this is here · AI can't replace UX fundamentals — this builds the process rigor designers need.
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AI Illustration with Midjourney
Explore prompt-crafting, style control, and post-processing to produce editorial-quality illustrations using Midjourney and image tools.
Why this is here · Practical prompt and style techniques designers can drop into commercial illustration work.
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Introduction to Adobe Firefly and Generative AI
Learn Adobe Firefly's generative fill, text-to-image, and style transfer inside a designer's Creative Cloud workflow.
Why this is here · Firefly is the AI layer inside tools designers already use daily — mastering it is table stakes.
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Animation Bootcamp
with Joey Korenman
The industry-standard 12-week course on the principles of animation, timing, and character of motion in After Effects.
Why this is here · AI video tools still need a director who understands timing and easing — this teaches that eye.
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AI for Product Managers
with Section Faculty
A short course on scoping, shipping, and evaluating AI features — useful for designers embedded on AI product teams.
Why this is here · Designers on AI products need to speak PM: model choice, evals, and cost tradeoffs.
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Design Systems with Storybook
with Emma Bostian
Build and document a production design system in Storybook, covering tokens, components, and handoff between design and code.
Why this is here · AI generates components fast — a real design system is how you keep them coherent.
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Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT
with Dr. Jules White (Vanderbilt)
Vanderbilt's popular course on prompt patterns, few-shot examples, and structured techniques to get reliable output from LLMs.
Why this is here · Prompting well is now a core design skill — this is the most-cited free course on it.
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Mastering Figma
with Joey Banks
Deep dive into advanced Figma — variables, auto layout, components, and design systems — taught by ex-Twitter designer Joey Banks.
Why this is here · AI plugins live inside Figma; fluency in the tool multiplies what AI can do for you.
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AI for Web Developers
with Jason Lengstorf
Build AI-powered features into web apps — from OpenAI API calls to streaming responses and prompt engineering for interfaces.
Why this is here · Designers who can prototype AI features in code are irreplaceable on product teams.
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Figma UI UX Design Essentials
with Daniel Walter Scott
A widely-taken, project-based Figma course covering wireframes, prototypes, and handoff — indexed and reviewed on Class Central.
Why this is here · Solid Figma fundamentals are the substrate AI design tools plug into.
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CSS Grid & Flexbox for Responsive Layouts
with Jen Kramer
A thorough course on modern CSS layout — the foundation you need to review, fix, and direct any AI-generated front-end code.
Why this is here · AI writes plausible CSS; you need to know when it's actually correct and accessible.
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Advanced Motion Methods
with Sander van Dijk
A rigorous course on principles of motion — timing, spacing, and choreography — that generative video tools still can't produce on their own.
Why this is here · Craft fundamentals are the moat when everyone has access to the same AI video models.
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AI-Applied UX Design: Enhancing User Experiences
A practical course on integrating AI tools into UX research, ideation, wireframing, and usability testing workflows.
Why this is here · Covers the full UX pipeline through an AI lens — useful for teams updating their process.
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Introduction to AI Applied to UX Design
Domestika's UX/UI catalog includes multiple short courses on applying ChatGPT, Midjourney, and Figma AI plugins to interface design.
Why this is here · Affordable, project-based lessons that fit around client work and produce portfolio artifacts.
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Creative AI: Generate Images with Midjourney
A range of Domestika classes on prompt craft, style consistency, and integrating Midjourney output into illustration and brand work.
Why this is here · Prompt craft is now table stakes for anyone producing visual concepts under deadline.
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Designing a Business
with Diego Rodriguez
IDEO U's cohort on applying design thinking to build viable business models — the strategic layer AI still can't automate.
Why this is here · Designers who can shape business direction, not just screens, keep leverage as AI commoditizes execution.
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Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT
with Jules White
Vanderbilt's popular course, aggregated on Class Central, teaching structured prompting patterns designers can reuse across research and copy tasks.
Why this is here · Reusable prompt patterns save hours per week versus reinventing prompts for each project.
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Introduction to Midjourney for Creatives
Master Midjourney prompting, style references, and image compositing for professional design deliverables.
Why this is here · Midjourney is now table-stakes for concept art, moodboards, and marketing visuals.
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AI Strategy for Product Managers and Designers
Reforge program on evaluating, scoping, and shipping AI features in production products alongside PMs and engineers.
Why this is here · Designers leading AI features need the same strategic language as their PM counterparts.
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Creative Coding for Designers
Learn WebGL, Three.js, and shaders to create immersive web experiences beyond what template-based AI tools produce.
Why this is here · Differentiated interactive craft is the moat as AI commoditizes generic web design.
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Advanced Motion Methods
with Sander van Dijk
Deep-dive into professional motion design workflows, principles, and expressions that AI video tools still cannot replicate.
Why this is here · Motion craft fundamentals AI video generators can't fake — essential complement to Runway and Sora.
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Generative AI for Designers
Learn how to apply generative AI to visual concepting, mockups, and rapid prototyping for design workflows.
Why this is here · Foundational course for designers new to prompting and generative image tools.
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Storytelling for Change
IDEO course on structuring narratives that persuade stakeholders and users, taught through hands-on assignments.
Why this is here · Narrative craft is the human skill AI can assist but never replace in design leadership.
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ChatGPT for Designers and Creators
Curated catalog of short courses on using ChatGPT for design research, copywriting, and ideation across skill levels.
Why this is here · Fastest way to level up prompting habits for daily design tasks.
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Generative AI with Large Language Models
with Andrew Ng team (DeepLearning.AI)
DeepLearning.AI and AWS course on how LLMs actually work, including fine-tuning, RAG, and evaluation.
Why this is here · Designers shaping AI products benefit from understanding the underlying model mechanics.
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Digital Illustration with Artificial Intelligence
Domestika's growing catalog of AI illustration courses covering Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and hybrid workflows for commercial illustration.
Why this is here · Practical AI image workflows illustrators and brand designers can bring into client work immediately.
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Creative Prompt Engineering with Midjourney
Learn to craft precise prompts, control style, and build reusable prompt systems for consistent brand and editorial imagery.
Why this is here · Prompting is now a core design skill for anyone producing visual concepts.
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Design Thinking for Innovation
with IDEO
IDEO's flagship course on human-centered design methods: framing problems, prototyping, and testing with real users.
Why this is here · Problem framing and user empathy are the parts of design AI can't automate.
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Storytelling for Influence
with IDEO
A five-week course on structuring narratives, pitching ideas, and moving audiences — taught by IDEO's storytelling practitioners.
Why this is here · Designers using AI still have to sell the work; narrative craft is the differentiator.
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Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT
with Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt's popular course on prompt patterns, few-shot examples, and structured techniques for getting reliable output from LLMs.
Why this is here · Prompt patterns transfer directly to Figma AI, Cursor, and any tool a designer touches daily.
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AI Product Management Specialization
with Duke University
Duke's specialization on the ML lifecycle, data quality, and managing AI products — including human-in-the-loop design considerations.
Why this is here · Designers who understand model behavior make better calls on UX for AI features.
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AI Applied to UX Design
Practical workflows for integrating ChatGPT, Midjourney, and Figma AI plugins into user research, wireframing, and design system creation.
Why this is here · Concrete UX-specific prompts and workflows beat generic prompt-engineering tutorials for daily practice.
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Creative Confidence
with Tom & David Kelley
IDEO's flagship on unlocking creative capacity through structured practice — the human judgment layer AI can't automate.
Why this is here · Taste and creative judgment are the moat; this builds the muscle that directs AI output.
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Illustration with Procreate and AI
Hybrid illustration workflows combining hand-drawn Procreate work with generative AI for ideation, texture, and iteration.
Why this is here · Illustrators who blend hand craft with AI ideation are outpacing pure-AI or pure-hand peers.
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Typography Fundamentals
A craft-first course on typographic hierarchy, pairing, and detail — the taste-level decisions AI tools still get consistently wrong.
Why this is here · Type judgment is one of the last clear signals separating designers from AI output.
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AI for Creative Work: Ideate, Design, and Communicate
A practical Domestika course on integrating ChatGPT, Midjourney, and other AI tools into ideation, moodboarding, and client communication.
Why this is here · Covers the everyday AI workflow shortcuts designers actually reach for on live projects.
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Illustration with Artificial Intelligence
with Rocío Cañero
Learn to use Midjourney and Photoshop's generative tools to develop original illustration styles and refine AI outputs into polished work.
Why this is here · Teaches how to shape AI outputs into a distinctive visual voice rather than generic slop.
Aggregated by Claude with live web search across Maven, Coursera, Domestika, IDEO U, School of Motion, Section, Reforge, Awwwards Academy, Frontend Masters, and Class Central. Refreshed daily.