Spec-Driven AI for UX Designers: from Vibe to AI Pilot
Alex M. Chong
UX Director, Practice Advisor, Coach
The UX career path from vibe prompting to piloting your own AI systems
You write a good prompt and it works. Then it starts drifting, pulling the wrong context, forgetting what you set up, fixating on one detail, ignoring the rest until you're babysitting something that seemed capable at the start.
Most designers hit this ceiling then reasonably conclude the limitation must be with the model itself. The real limit is that you're relating to it as a one-way chat, sending words and receiving an artefact, never seeing the context it works from. Sharper prompting doesn't change that.
This course teaches the skills to pilot instead of vibe prompt. It starts by unlearning the habits chat trained into you, then moving the work into files you and your agent both operate on, where work gets shaped and specified before it's built, and where the way you think is built in, so you stop recalibrating it every session.
In four weeks you build one by hand, then pilot it: running real work through it, finding where it breaks, diagnosing why, rebuilding until it holds. Repeated, that loop is how systems thinking becomes instinct.
You leave with a working system, and a changed relationship to AI that holds as the tools keep changing.
What you’ll learn
Stop vibe coding with AI. This course takes you to operator level: write the spec, pilot AI, and build real products you can actually ship.
Recognize where vibe prompting is capping your results
Rework how you relate to AI, from one-way requests to working in parallel
Understand why results drift, rather than assuming the model is the limit
Separate what an agent should know, how it should work, and what it's working on
Shape the setup around your process rather than a template
Get a working system running on real work, not an exercise
Run live work through your system and find where it breaks
Diagnose why it drifted, rather than guessing at a better prompt
Stage-gate so work is shaped and specified before anything gets built
Get clear on your own preferences, standards and sequence
Document them well enough that a system can hold you to them
Iterate toward more advanced usage as your system matures
Stop seeing AI as a tool you operate and start seeing work as systems you design
Build the case study that shows what this looks like in practice
Leave able to build the next system, not just run this one
Learn directly from Alex
Alex M. Chong
Director of UX Design, UX Practice Advisor & Career Coach
Who this course is for
Designers who suspect chatting is the whole of their AI progress so far, and are ready to find out what's actually on the other side of it.
Design leads and directors being asked how their team should work with AI, without an answer they believe in yet.
Senior designers weighing a move toward leadership, who want systems thinking growth not another AI tool to add to the list.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Alex M. Chong 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
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Course syllabus
3 live sessions • 24 lessons • 12 projects
Week 1
1.1 The Limits of a One-Way Modality
1.2 Fundamentals of Language Learning Models
1.3 Prompt Construction & The Coworker Dynamic
Oct
5
Live Kickoff: Welcome & Pre-Course Review
Week 2
2.1 AI System Architecture: Agent, Context & Work Model
2.2 Operating Your System & Predicting Its Behaviour
2.3 Mapping Your Unique Workflow
Oct
18
Open Check-In: How Your Systems Are Holding Up
Schedule
Live sessions
2 hrs / week
Mon, Oct 5
4:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)
Sun, Oct 18
4:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)
Mon, Oct 26
4:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)
Projects
2 hrs / week
Async content
4 hrs / week
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