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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Maven·Cohort-based
Designing for AI
A Maven cohort focused on UX patterns for AI products — chat, agents, generative interfaces, and the new interaction primitives shipping today.
Why this is here · The emerging UX patterns for AI products aren't documented anywhere else yet.
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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 do, and how to use it responsibly in creative and business contexts.
Why this is here · Builds the AI literacy designers need to talk credibly with PMs and engineers.
- 03
Awwwards Academy·Self-paced
AI for Web Designers
Use AI tools for web design ideation, content generation, image creation, and rapid prototyping — taught by award-winning web designers.
Why this is here · Web-specific AI workflows from designers shipping award-winning sites.
- 04
Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT
with Jules White
Vanderbilt's widely-taken course on prompt patterns, few-shot techniques, and structured prompting for reliable outputs across creative tasks.
Why this is here · Prompt craft is now table stakes — this is the most-cited rigorous course on it.
- 05
School of Motion·Cohort-based
Animation Bootcamp
with Morgan Williams
The canonical 12-week course on animation principles in After Effects — timing, spacing, and the fundamentals that AI video tools approximate poorly.
Why this is here · Animation principles are the craft layer that separates designers from AI video output.
- 06
Advanced Motion Methods
with Sander van Dijk
Deep dive into expression-driven, procedural motion design — the craft-heavy techniques AI video tools still can't reliably produce.
Why this is here · Sharpens the high-end motion craft that keeps designers above commoditized AI output.
- 07
IDEO U·Self-paced
AI for Creative Strategy
with IDEO faculty
IDEO's framework for using AI as a creative collaborator in strategy and concepting, with prompts, exercises, and case studies from IDEO's practice.
Why this is here · Brings design-thinking rigor to AI prompting — useful for senior designers leading projects.
- 08
Domestika·Self-paced
AI Applied to UX Design
Apply AI tools across the UX process — from research synthesis to wireframing and prototype iteration — with practical exercises and a final project.
Why this is here · Hands-on UX-specific AI techniques, not generic prompt engineering.
- 09
Section·Live workshop
Mastering AI for Marketing & Design
with Scott Galloway faculty
Section's executive-style course on integrating AI into creative and marketing workflows, including image, copy, and brand applications.
Why this is here · Frames AI fluency at the level designers need to pitch leadership and clients.
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Reforge·Cohort-based
AI Strategy for Product Teams
with Reforge faculty
Reforge's program on building and shipping AI-powered product features, covering model selection, evaluation, and UX patterns for AI products.
Why this is here · Teaches the AI product patterns designers must own when shaping AI features.
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Frontend Masters·Self-paced
Complete Intro to Web Development
with Brian Holt
Foundational HTML, CSS, and JS course — essential context for designers shipping AI-assisted code in tools like Cursor and v0.
Why this is here · Lets designers actually review and ship the code AI now generates for them.
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Design Systems with Storybook
with Emma Bostian
Build and document a real design system using Storybook, tokens, and component APIs that AI codegen tools can reliably consume.
Why this is here · AI codegen only works as well as the design system feeding it — this teaches that layer.
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AI Product Management Specialization
with Jon Reifschneider
Duke's specialization on managing AI products end-to-end — data, models, evaluation, and deployment — for non-engineers.
Why this is here · Designers leading AI features need this shared vocabulary with PM and ML partners.
- 14
Typography for Designers
Foundational typography craft from working type designers — the kind of judgment AI image generators consistently fail at.
Why this is here · Typographic taste remains a hard differentiator in an AI-flattened visual world.
- 15
Creativity & AI
with IDEO faculty
Explore how AI changes the creative process and team dynamics, with IDEO exercises for individual and group creative practice.
Why this is here · Helps designers reframe their creative identity as AI absorbs execution tasks.
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Class Central·Aggregator catalog
Best AI Courses for Designers
Class Central's curated and reviewed catalog of design and AI courses across providers, with ratings and enrollment links.
Why this is here · Useful meta-source for finding courses matching specific tools and time budgets.
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Google UX Design Professional Certificate
with Google Career Certificates
Seven-course program covering UX research, wireframing, prototyping in Figma, and portfolio building from Google's design team.
Why this is here · AI accelerates execution, but the research and IA fundamentals taught here are what AI can't replace.
- 18
AI for Motion Designers
Workshops and short courses on integrating Runway, Kling, and After Effects AI plugins into a motion design pipeline.
Why this is here · Motion is the next frontier for generative tools — designers fluent here have huge leverage.
- 19
AI for Creative Leaders
IDEO's program on leading creative teams through AI adoption, covering ethics, workflow redesign, and human-centered AI integration.
Why this is here · Senior designers need a framework for deciding when AI helps and when it dilutes the work.
- 20
AI-Powered Web Design
Courses on combining ChatGPT, Midjourney, and Framer to design and ship award-quality websites faster than traditional workflows.
Why this is here · Awwwards-tier output sets the visual bar AI-using designers should aim for.
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AI Applied to Graphic Design with Midjourney
with Javier Jaén
Learn to integrate Midjourney into a professional graphic design workflow, from concept ideation to final compositions in Photoshop.
Why this is here · Shows how a working art director actually folds generative imagery into client deliverables.
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Introduction to AI-Assisted Illustration
Practical illustration courses covering Stable Diffusion, ComfyUI, and hybrid workflows that keep the illustrator's hand visible in the final piece.
Why this is here · Illustrators using AI need craft and taste — these courses teach both at once.
- 23
Designing Strategy
with IDEO faculty
A five-week course on applying design thinking to business strategy and turning ambiguous problems into actionable plans.
Why this is here · Strategic framing is the most defensible skill a designer can build in an AI-saturated market.
- 24
AI Product Management
Section's intensive on building AI-powered products, covering LLM capabilities, evaluation, and shipping AI features that actually work.
Why this is here · Designers on AI product teams need shared vocabulary with PMs and engineers to lead the work.
- 25
AI Mini-MBA
with Scott Galloway
Six-week program covering AI strategy, prompt engineering, and use cases across functions — taught by NYU Stern faculty.
Why this is here · Gives designers business context to pitch AI work credibly to executives and clients.
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AI for Product Design
Reforge program on designing AI-native product experiences, covering interaction patterns, evals, and the new design constraints LLMs introduce.
Why this is here · AI-native UX patterns are still being invented — Reforge is where senior practitioners debate them.
- 27
Mastering Figma
with Joey Banks
Comprehensive Figma course from a former Twitter and GitHub designer, covering components, variables, and production-ready design systems.
Why this is here · AI tools output to Figma — knowing the file format deeply lets you clean up and ship faster.
- 28
Introduction to Prompt Engineering for Developers
with Steve Kinney
Workshop on writing effective prompts, building structured outputs, and integrating LLMs into real apps — useful for designers prototyping with code.
Why this is here · Designers building AI prototypes need to prompt like engineers, not like marketers.
- 29
Generative AI with Large Language Models
with DeepLearning.AI & AWS
Technical course on how LLMs are trained, fine-tuned, and deployed — with hands-on labs in prompt engineering and RAG.
Why this is here · Designers fluent in how models actually work design better AI interfaces than those who aren't.
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Best Free AI Courses
Curated, regularly updated index of free and paid AI courses from Stanford, MIT, Harvard, and DeepLearning.AI with student ratings.
Why this is here · Fastest way for a designer to find a credible AI course in a specific niche this week.
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Design Thinking for Innovation
with IDEO
IDEO's flagship course on the design thinking process — empathy, ideation, prototyping, and iteration applied to real problems.
Why this is here · AI accelerates execution; design thinking is what tells you what to execute.
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AI for Creative Problem Solving
with IDEO
IDEO's course on using AI as a creative collaborator — for ideation, synthesis, and breaking through fixed thinking.
Why this is here · Teaches AI as a thinking partner, not just a production tool — the harder skill.
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AI for Designers
with Aaron Jimenez
A hands-on cohort teaching designers how to integrate AI tools like Midjourney, Figma AI, and ChatGPT into real product workflows.
Why this is here · Built specifically for designers who need to ship faster with AI without losing craft.
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Generative AI for Product Designers
Learn to prototype, ideate, and ship product features using generative AI models alongside traditional design tools.
Why this is here · Teaches the prompt-to-prototype loop every product designer now needs to master.
- 35
Vibe Coding for Designers
A short course for designers who want to use Cursor, v0, and Claude to build working prototypes without a dev handoff.
Why this is here · Closes the design-to-code gap that AI tools have suddenly made traversable.
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AI for Illustration and Design with Midjourney
Learn to generate concept art, moodboards, and finished illustrations using Midjourney with art-direction techniques that go beyond random prompts.
Why this is here · Midjourney fluency is table stakes for visual designers pitching concepts in 2025.
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Introduction to AI-Assisted Graphic Design
Practical course on integrating AI image tools into a graphic design workflow — branding, layouts, and production assets.
Why this is here · Bridges classical graphic design with AI generation in a way most courses don't.
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AI Strategy for Product Teams
with Greg Shove
Section's executive-level course on building AI-native product strategy, with frameworks for evaluating where AI actually creates value.
Why this is here · Senior designers in strategy conversations need this vocabulary to influence decisions.
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The AI Proficient Professional
Section's flagship certificate building daily AI fluency across writing, research, analysis, and creative tasks.
Why this is here · Designers compete with AI-fluent generalists now; this closes the gap fast.
- 40
AI for Product Design
Reforge's senior-level course on designing AI-powered product experiences — model selection, UX patterns, and evals for generative features.
Why this is here · Designing with AI in the product (not just for ideation) is a distinct, paid skill.
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Mastering AI for Web Design
Awwwards course on using AI tools for web design — from generating layouts and copy to building animated, award-worthy sites.
Why this is here · Web designers chasing Awwwards-tier work need the AI stack the winners are using.
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AI-Driven UX Design
Course on designing UX patterns for AI features — chat, generation, agentic flows, and trust-building interactions.
Why this is here · The UX patterns for AI products are still being invented; this is a head start.
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AI for Web Developers and Designers
with Jason Lengstorf
Frontend Masters workshop on integrating LLMs, embeddings, and AI APIs into real web projects — practical and code-forward.
Why this is here · Designers who can wire AI into a working site command much higher rates.
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Brand Design Masterclass
Comprehensive course on brand systems, identity strategy, and visual language development from research to guidelines.
Why this is here · Brand coherence is hard for AI alone — strong systems thinking compounds with generative tools.
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AI for Motion Designers
Explores Runway, Kling, Sora, and AE-integrated AI tools for storyboarding, rotoscoping, and generating motion plates.
Why this is here · Motion is the design discipline most rapidly reshaped by generative video models.
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Building AI-Powered Apps with Cursor
Workshop on shipping real apps with Cursor, including prompting patterns, refactoring, and integrating APIs for designer-coders.
Why this is here · The fastest path from Figma to working product currently runs through Cursor.
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Design Thinking for Innovation
with Jeanne Liedtka
UVA Darden's classic course on structured design thinking — problem framing, ethnography, and prototyping for ambiguous problems.
Why this is here · Problem framing is the human skill AI amplifies but cannot replace.
- 48
Storytelling for Influence
with IDEO faculty
IDEO course on crafting narratives that move stakeholders — structure, character, and delivery for design presentations.
Why this is here · As AI generates more artifacts, narrating why they matter becomes the differentiator.
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AI Applications in Marketing and Design
with University of Virginia faculty
A multi-course path covering AI tools for ideation, branding, content production, and visual design workflows.
Why this is here · Practical AI workflows for brand and marketing designers under client deadlines.
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Illustration with AI: Create Images with Midjourney
Learn to craft prompts, refine outputs, and develop a personal illustration style using Midjourney as a creative collaborator.
Why this is here · Image generation is now a core illustration skill; prompt fluency separates good from great.
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