Craft at Speed: do your best work, faster, with AI
Andy Madrick
Product Designer at Notion
Learn to pair real design taste with AI tooling to ship your best work, fast.
AI is making everyone faster. But faster doesn't mean better. Most teams are shipping more work, not better work, and the gap between "fine" and "crafted" is getting wider.
The people who figure out how to pair real taste with AI tooling will have a serious edge. They'll ship work that looks and feels like it was made by someone who cares, because it was, and they'll do it in a fraction of the time.
This course gives you the eye, the tools, and the workflow to be one of those people. Whether you're a designer, PM, or engineer, you'll leave with a process for doing your best work at a pace that used to feel impossible.
What you’ll learn
You'll go from shipping work that's "good enough" to shipping crafted work at speed, with a real workflow you can use the day after class.
Live teardowns of real products showing the typography, spacing, and hierarchy moves that make the biggest difference.
A critique checklist you can use on any screen to quickly identify what's working and what's not.
Core principles that give you vocabulary for what you're seeing.
A live end-to-end demo: design in Figma, push changes to code, ship to production. The actual process, not a hypothetical.
A full breakdown of the stack and when to reach for each tool.
Setup guide and working files so you can run the same workflow on your own projects immediately.
Personalized video feedback on your project from me, covering design decisions, code quality, and what I'd change.
Live group crit session where you practice giving and receiving feedback using the principles from the course.
A portfolio-ready project showing your before, after, and working code that you built and shipped during the course.
Learn directly from Andy
Andy Madrick
Product Designer at Notion. Ex-Tome, ex-Mercury. Taught design at UW Seattle.
Who this course is for
Product designers who want to ship faster without sacrificing craft. You care about quality but feel like AI is passing you by.
People breaking into product and design who want to stand out. You'll develop the eye, tools, and a portfolio piece to prove you can ship.
PMs and engineers who ship product work but know it could look and feel better. You want to develop taste and learn to apply it.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Andy Madrick in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Maven Guarantee
This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.
Course syllabus
5 live sessions • 6 lessons • 3 projects
Week 1
Apr
15
Training your eye
Wed 4/156:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)Apr
17
Office hours
Fri 4/177:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)
Training your eye
Week 2
Apr
22
The stack and the workflow
Wed 4/226:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)Apr
20
Office hours
Mon 4/207:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)
The stack and the workflow
Schedule
Live sessions
1-2 hrs / week
One 60-minute live session per week (Wednesday). Optional 45-minute office hours on Fridays in weeks 1 and 2. Office hours are first come first serve.
Wed, Apr 15
6:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
Fri, Apr 17
7:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)
Wed, Apr 22
6:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
Projects
2 hrs / week
One project per week that builds on the last. Week 1 is a redesign. Week 2 is getting that redesign into code and shipping it. Week 3 is polishing your final piece. Each project feeds directly into the next, so by the end you have one complete thing, not three disconnected exercises.
Async content
1 hr / week
Short lessons to read before each live session. Core design principles, a breakdown of the tool stack, and a setup guide so you can follow along during demos. You'll also get a personalized video crit on your project in week 2. Nothing here is filler. Everything connects to what we're doing live.
Frequently asked questions
$950
USD