AI Coding for Product Designers

Nevan Scott

Design Teacher

Learn how to use AI coding tools to build your own designs

Making software is supposed to be fun! And this six weeks is packed with the most fun I’ve had in my 15-year teaching career.

LLM-assisted coding tools can put you in the driver’s seat, working with the real materials of your craft. I’m seeing designers do things I didn’t think I’d ever get to see designers do.

For as long as I can remember, product designers have been pushed away from code. Most designers settled this question for themselves long ago—code is not for me. Now is a great time to reconsider that decision. You can have a relationship with what feels like real work without spending years mastering syntactical minutiae.

Working on a design with code is an act of shaping: you’re shaping something out of the raw materials yourself. And as you shape it, you can actually interact with it, get the feel of it. This means you can work on a user interface the way it really works.

As designers, we enjoy making things. Working with code is a fantastic opportunity to feel connected to the thing you’re making.

Read on to find out more about the course, but keep in mind that the most important things that happen in my classroom have nothing to do with the syllabus.

What you’ll learn

Working with code as the raw material of software will change how you see design and what you can do with it.

  • Working with an LLM is weird and non-deterministic. You’ll learn what kinds of questions to ask and how to shape context for your work.

  • Use assistance as a tool—steer design and functionality toward your own vocabulary and mental models to shape your designs.

  • Get comfortable and gain confidence with large amounts of code on your screen.

  • Know how to assess its alignment with the direction of your design.

  • From frontend code to authentication and database layers, assemble the necessary building blocks as you move forward.

  • Strengthen your mental models of how these systems fit together to form a realistic progression towards shipping working features.

Learn directly from Nevan

Nevan Scott

Nevan Scott

Designer/developer since before it was uncool

General Assembly
Ironhack
Edenspiekermann
BuzzFeed
Cantilever Web Design & Development

Who this course is for

  • Product designers with solid design experience but little (or zero) coding knowledge who want to build working apps of their own creation.

  • Product designers comfortable in tools like Figma who want to understand how web apps work and are ready to learn new tools and thinking.

  • Product designers who want to cut through the noise by learning how to use AI coding tools with structure, intention and control.

Prerequisites

  • No previous coding experience is required

    Any amount of knowledge will work in your favor, but the course is made for designers with little-to-no coding skills.

  • Curiosity about how things work under the hood

    The course leans into understanding—not just generating—so a desire to go beyond surface-level outputs will help you get the most out of it.

  • Experience designing real-world products

    You should be comfortable making product decisions and thinking beyond individual screens.

What's included

Nevan Scott

Live sessions

Learn directly from Nevan Scott in a real-time, interactive format.

Original async content

Progress through the course content whenever your schedule allows.

Community of peers

Grow alongside peers who challenge your thinking and keep you on track.

Four weekly projects

Apply what you've learned through hands-on creative projects you'll actually enjoy.

Capstone project

Mark your progress with a final showcase piece that reflects the full scope of your growth.

Certificate of completion

Turn what you've learned into career opportunities—with your employer or across your network.

Maven Guarantee

Your purchase is backed by the Maven Guarantee.

Course syllabus

12 live sessions • 36 lessons

Week 1

Apr 13—Apr 19

    Building and Deploying Your First App

    8 items

    Apr

    13

    Session 1

    Mon 4/135:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

    Apr

    16

    Session 2

    Thu 4/165:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

Week 2

Apr 20—Apr 26

    Web App Architecture

    8 items

    Apr

    20

    Session 3

    Mon 4/205:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

    Apr

    23

    Session 4

    Thu 4/235:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

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Full Course Syllabus
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Full Course Syllabus

Get a more in-depth look at what's covered in the course, what you'll do, and what you'll get out of it! Also a great document to share with your org when asking them to pay for you. ;)

Schedule

Live sessions

4 hrs / week

    • Mon, Apr 13

      5:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

    • Thu, Apr 16

      5:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

    • Mon, Apr 20

      5:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

Projects

4-8 hrs / week

Async content

2-4 hrs / week

Testimonials

  • Nevan is an exceptional educator. He pulls back the curtain on coding and offers foundational building blocks you need to start creating with real intention and less “vibing.” The async content is detailed and easy to follow, with a refreshing focus on writing, reflecting and documenting ideas before prompting LLMs. While we worked in Cursor, the material is tool-agnostic and stays focused on the core logic of building.


    As a product designer, I now feel significantly more confident designing in code and deploying functional web apps. I’m building things that actually work, but also look and behave as I intended!

    Take this course and make an app. You’ll be better for it!

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    Laima Mazeikyte

    Product Designer
  • Before joining Nevan’s course, I felt completely overwhelmed by AI and coding—new tools every day and endless noise about vibe coding.

    When I heard he was creating a course for designers, I knew it was exactly what I needed. Nevan is an excellent educator who truly knows his way and always creates a safe, inspiring learning environment.

    The course is thoughtfully curated and goes far beyond vibe coding. You learn to think in systems, understand architecture, and see how things really work behind your designs, giving you real power as a designer.

    And it's genuinely fun—you’re challenged in meaningful ways and surrounded by other designers who help push your skills further.

    This is a course every designer should take—you'll cut through all the noise and take the driver’s seat with AI.

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    Lara Perez

    Senior Product Designer
  • This course helped me connect design, code, and AI in a much more practical way. I already knew the fundamentals, but now I better understand the internal logic of the code.

    The step‑by‑step structure supports more informed decisions and a clear direction throughout. The weekly project is an effective pace to learn, explore approaches, and continuously update the portfolio without becoming overwhelming.

    Working this way has also helped me better understand and communicate design decisions to developers, and bring both areas closer together with a shared understanding of how things actually work.

    Nevan is a thoughtful and excellent instructor. He explains difficult concepts very clearly, listens carefully to students’ questions, and shares very insightful resources that support his teaching.

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    Alicia Perez

    Digital Product Designer
  • Nevan has the ability to make complex technical concepts feel approachable without dumbing them down. The content is well structured, progressive, and clearly designed with designers in mind, while still going deep into the technical aspects you actually need to understand.

    What I valued most was building real, working things, not prototypes or mockups, but actual deployed web apps. Having weekly projects to practise what we were learning was a great way to put the concepts into practice. I came away with a much better understanding of the architecture, logic, Git, and deployment behind any development process.

    Just as valuable was the environment created by the other designers in the course and the conversations between people, all trying to figure out where design practice is heading.

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    Cristina Guardiola

    Lead Product Designer
  • A lot is changing in the world of product and design right now, and it's easy to feel lost in all of it. It's not just about new tools. The whole workflow has changed.

    This course really helped clear the confusion and develop the skills needed to build my ideas. Within 4 weeks, I was deploying dynamic web apps with a warm community of talented designers and I became much more comfortable guiding the agents, understanding the outputs and navigating my files.

    Nevan is an awesome person. He's incredibly knowledgeable and this diverse knowledge makes him uniquely qualified to help you grow with these changing times.

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    Andrew Gatto

    Product Designer
  • Taking this course felt like the first time all the pieces of “product” actually clicked. I had some experience coding, designing, and leading product development, but these 8 weeks helped me to summarize everything. I am thrilled with the results.

    I didn’t just learn another set of AI-powered tools, I learned how to think like a builder who can go from a fuzzy idea to a shipped, opinionated product.

    This course gave me something I was missing: the confidence to design, build, and ship a valid functional product end-to-end from UX to narrative to data modelling. Nevan has a lot to do with everything we did as his capacity to transmit knowledge, create community, and encourage us to think deeply is outstanding!!!

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    Isaura Fontcuberta

    Lead Product Designer · Product Owner · Engineer

What you'll make in the first week

Here’s a sneak peek at the kind of work you’ll be making in just the first week!

What you'll make during the full course

Take a quick look at samples of all five projects you'll have created by the end of the course!

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Apr 13—May 29
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