Cohort 2

Learn the AI skills you need to evaluate opportunities, design experiences, and build AI-powered products—without coding

Rupa Chaturvedi

Polly Allen

No-Code AI Essentials for Product & Design Leaders

Unlock the power of AI to design and lead AI-powered products &amp; experiences—without writing a single line of code!AI is transforming product and design, but most AI education is either too technical for business leaders or too theoretical to be useful. No-Code AI Essentials is the only course built for product managers and designers who want to confidently integrate AI into their products using practical, real-world frameworks and learn AI by getting hands-on. 💡 What You’ll Learn:How to evaluate AI opportunities and pick the right projects for your users &amp; business.How to design intuitive AI interactions that actually work for people.How to prototype AI-driven experiences with no-code tools.How to measure success and avoid AI pitfalls (bias, hallucinations, poor user trust). Taught by industry pros who’ve built AI at Amazon, Google, and Uber, this course cuts through the hype to give you the frameworks and tools to make AI work—the right way. 🛠 What You’ll Get:✅ 4 live virtual workshops with Polly &amp; Rupa—learning from proven AI educators whose courses rank Top 3 on Reforge (by NPS) and are Maven bestsellers.✅ A downloadable AI Product &amp; Design Playbook—filled with real-world tools, templates, and checklists.✅ A video walkthrough of no-code AI tools—so you can start experimenting right away.✅ Lifetime access to our AI by Design community—where leaders like you share insights, resources, and job opportunities. 📌 By the end of this course, you’ll have:✔ A tested process for evaluating, designing, and leading AI initiatives.✔ Confidence in using no-code AI tools to validate ideas fast.✔ The skills to build AI-powered products &amp; UX—without needing a technical background. 🔥 AI isn’t just for engineers—it’s for product &amp; design leaders who know how to build the right things, the right way. Join us and start building AI for the world we want.

AI by Design: Learn to Build AI-Powered Products the Right Way

Product Managers – Learn to evaluate AI opportunities, work with technical teams, and confidently lead AI-powered products.

Design Leaders – Understand how AI transforms user experiences and how to prototype AI-driven interactions.

Innovation &amp; Strategy Teams – Gain practical frameworks to guide AI decisions and validate AI ideas fast.

⚠️ This course is NOT for engineers or data scientists looking for ML model development—this is about AI application &amp; leadership.

Who is this course for

What you’ll get out of this course

You'll learn where AI-driven products succeed and fail, common pitfalls to avoid, and how to evaluate AI opportunities using industry frameworks. You’ll walk away knowing how to build a strong business case for your AI initiative.

🧠 Understand When to Apply AI in Your Product or UX

Learn the unique design challenges of AI-powered experiences—from trust and transparency to human-AI interaction best practices. Get hands-on exploring no-code AI tools and understand how to iterate efficiently with your team.

🎨 Learn Principles for AI-Driven Product & UX Design

You don’t need a technical background to test AI ideas. We’ll guide you through evaluating AI tools, setting validation criteria, and creating lightweight AI-driven prototypes using no-code platforms to bring your vision to life.

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🛠 Know How to Prototype & Validate AI Concepts with No-Code

AI isn’t just about launching a feature—it’s about ensuring it delivers real value. Learn how to set success metrics, monitor AI performance over time, and avoid risks like bias, hallucinations, and user distrust.

📈 Measure AI Success & Avoid Common Pitfalls

Whether you’re a product manager, UX leader, or innovation strategist, you’ll leave with a repeatable framework for integrating AI into your work, guiding stakeholders, and making smart AI decisions—without needing to code.

💡 Lead AI Initiatives with Confidence

ChatGPT has made everyone aware of the possibilities of interacting with AI in conversations. But conversational interaction - or using AI at all - might not be a great fit for your project! We'll cover:<ul><li>Definitions and Background: What is Conversational AI? When is it a good fit?</li><li>Defining Success: Establishing business, product and user goals</li></ul>

DEFINE

How is design for conversational UXs different from traditional/digital UX design? We'll cover:<ul><li>Understanding User Considerations and defining user value and insights.</li><li>The Key Design Principles for conversational AI experiences</li><li>How to Communicate and iterate with stakeholders</li><li>Develop your Custom Toolkit to design and build products users love.</li></ul>

DESIGN 

Beyond ChatGPT there are many options for building conversational experiences. We'll look at:<ul><li>How to evaluate your conversational CX quality</li><li>Setting release criteria</li><li>Build vs. buy: when to use 3rd party tools and APIs and when you'll need to build your own AI models</li><li>How to build prototypes</li><li>The path to production (and beyond!)</li></ul>

DEPLOY (and reDEPLOY)

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Meet your instructor

90-minute live sessions compliment online video learning with Q&amp;A, discussions and guest speakers.

Monday, Wednesday and Friday

Assignments between sessions are optional but provide an opportunity to practice and get feedback.

Optional Readings/Assignments

For those iterating on designs on building prototypes, we'll host a post-class group lab session to support you with any problems or questions after the class.

Optional Live Lab Session

Course schedule

Welcome and introduction to the course, the instructors and your other cohort members.

Thursday, April 6th

Friday, April 7th

Thursday, April 13th

Friday, April 14th

Optional Readings / Assignment

Course schedule - Cohort 3

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Active hands-on learning

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

Interactive and project-based

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