Interaction Design Foundation: AI for designers

What the course is

Interaction Design Foundation’s “AI for Designers” is a five-week self-paced course totaling approximately 14 hours. It is offered through IxDF’s membership subscription, which provides access to their full catalog of 40+ courses. The course was updated with new material in early 2026 as part of IxDF’s platform overhaul.

Who it is for

The course targets practicing designers — UX, product, interaction, and visual — who want a structured introduction to working with AI tools across their process. It assumes familiarity with design fundamentals but does not require programming knowledge. The course is relevant to both individual contributors looking to build AI into their daily workflow and design leads thinking about process-level changes for their teams.

What it covers

The curriculum spans seven topic areas over five weeks. The first week covers the current state of AI in design practice and what has changed for the profession. Week two focuses on prompt engineering specifically for design use cases — not generic prompting, but building a personal playbook for design tasks. The third week covers AI-powered research and ideation, including how to use AI tools to accelerate discovery phases without losing the depth that makes research actionable.

Week four moves to prototyping and usability testing with AI assistance. The fifth week addresses designing AI products from the inside: how to build interfaces for AI-powered features, how to handle uncertainty in AI outputs, how to address algorithmic bias, and how to build user trust in systems that behave non-deterministically.

The final section covers AI design patterns and ethics, giving designers a shared vocabulary for AI interaction paradigms that has emerged across the industry.

Instructors include Ioana Teleanu (formerly Lead Designer at Miro), Jarvis Moore (Senior Design Lead at Microsoft), Niwal Sheikh (Product Design Lead at Netflix), Vitaly Friedman (European Parliament), and Pablo Stanley (Musho, Lummi).

What it does not cover

The course does not teach generative image tools in depth, nor does it address AI tools specific to motion design, 3D, or video production. It focuses on the design process rather than any single platform or toolset.