Mastering AI Product Strategy: From Ideas to MVP

4.4 (14)

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2 Weeks

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Cohort-based Course

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

Previously at

Amazon
Google
Uber
Stanford University
MIT research group

Course overview

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

Unlock the power of AI to design and lead AI-powered products & 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 & 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 & Rupa—learning from proven AI educators whose courses rank Top 3 on Reforge (by NPS) and are Maven bestsellers.

✅ A downloadable AI Product & 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 & UX—without needing a technical background.


🔥 AI isn’t just for engineers—it’s for product & design leaders who know how to build the right things, the right way.


Join us and start building AI for the world we want.

Who is this course for

01

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

02

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

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

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

What you’ll get out of this course

🧠 Understand When to Apply AI in Your Product or UX

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.

🎨 Learn Principles for AI-Driven Product & UX Design

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.

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

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.

📈 Measure AI Success & Avoid Common Pitfalls

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.

💡 Lead AI Initiatives with Confidence

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.

This course includes

4 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

19 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

Projects to apply learnings

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Maven Satisfaction Guarantee

This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Mar 3—Mar 9

    Module 1: Foundations of AI Product Discovery

    • Mar

      4

      Live workshop: AI Use Case Evaluation

      Tue 3/44:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)
    4 more items

    Module 2: Designing AI Products for Trust & Adoption

    • Mar

      6

      Live workshop: AI User Experience Design

      Thu 3/64:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)
    3 more items

Week 2

Mar 10—Mar 16

    Module 3: Building Viable AI Data & Technical Plans

    • Mar

      11

      Live workshop: Data Strategy & Planning

      Tue 3/113:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)
    5 more items

    Module 4: Validating Your AI Product Strategy

    • Mar

      13

      Live session: AI Prototyping and Evaluation

      Thu 3/133:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)
    7 more items

4.4 (14 ratings)

What students are saying

Who Will Benefit Most From This Course

This course is for you if you're a Product Manager who is:

  • Leading or planning AI product initiatives
  • Identifying AI opportunities across products
  • Creating AI-driven product roadmaps
  • Balancing user needs & business goals

This course is for you if you're a Design Leader who is:

  • Shaping how users interact with AI in your products
  • Ensuring AI enhances rather than complicates the experience
  • Building user trust through transparent AI interactions
  • Considering responsible AI principles in design

This course is for you if you're an IC who is:

  • Launching new AI features or transforming existing products
  • Creating structured approaches for AI implementation
  • Aligning stakeholders around your AI vision & roadmap
  • Building frameworks for successful AI product development

This course is for you if you're part of a team that is:

  • Shifting focus from traditional to AI-driven products
  • Making strategic decisions about AI implementation
  • Developing frameworks for AI product success
  • Shaping AI strategies and product vision

What past students are saying

        This program is fantastic! As part of the first cohort, I often refer back to it. Polly M. Allen and Rupa Chaturvedi bring top-tier Product Thought Leadership and are genuinely invested, empathetic, and patient mentors, deeply committed to cohort members’ growth. Highly recommended!
Harsha Srivatsa

Harsha Srivatsa

Product Builder/Solutions Creator
        Very in-depth knowledge and real world hands on experience shared, and it was a very engaging discussion! TYSM Rupa and Polly for the extra time to answer questions at the end; extremely valuable to get your feedback on a question and to learn from how others are also thinking through this.
Muxin Li

Muxin Li

Senior Product Manager
        Knowledgeable hosts/instructors. Great examples and framework using JTBD and attaching it to measurable impact/value.
Joshua Kinberg

Joshua Kinberg

Director, Product Management
        We went through a lot of technical content but it was able to follow along. Appreciated the break-out room and have the opportunity to discuss my use case with cohort participants.
Vijita Salotra

Vijita Salotra

Digital marketing strategy
        Theory plus real life example, and clear path to action for me. This was an outstanding delivery of framework, template, examples and case studies. I can leave this course with clear action.
David Taylor

David Taylor

Founder
        The real world examples that Polly and Rupa shared were fantastic- no theory, the information is based on real use cases, successes and fails.
Gwendolyn Elder

Gwendolyn Elder

Product Designer

Why This Course is Different

AI Industry Experts - With Teaching Experience

With rich backgrounds in innovation in world-leading companies, Polly and Rupa have been teaching AI for product and business leaders since March 2023. Together they have taught over 1,000 students.

A Track Record of Excellence

Our first course on Maven was one of the highest-rated in Maven's history (with a 4.9/5 rating over 6 cohorts.) We have taught across Maven, Reforge, the Human AI Institute and AI Career Boost, and have taught invited lectures at Stanford, Berkeley and MIT.

A Focus on Hands-On Learning

We get consistent feedback that people love how actionable our courses are. Grounded in theory, we provide frameworks from industry and real-world case studies that help you apply these concepts right away.

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Meet your instructors

Rupa Chaturvedi

Rupa Chaturvedi

Rupa Chaturvedi is a seasoned product design leader with over 15 years of experience in the tech industry, having worked at companies such as Amazon (Alexa AI), Google, Uber and pioneering AI startups.

She is the founder of Human Centered AI Institute, offering corporate training and individual coaching programs in AI product development and design.

Her fingerprints are all over the AR/AI/ML/Computer Vision consumer technologies we use today, including AR and Conversational AI enabled consumer experiences at Amazon and Uber.

She holds a MS Degree in Product Design from Stanford University and a PG Diploma in Creative Leadership from THNK, Amsterdam.

She has published over 18 patents in this space, teaches UX Design for AI applications at Stanford University and advises/invests in food startups.

As a visionary in the field, Rupa has dedicated her career to humanizing technology and uplifting others through her work and mentorship.


Polly Allen

Polly Allen

Polly Allen has over 20 years experience developing software, building and leading software teams and most recently leading cross-functional science and engineering teams as a Principal Product Manager for Alexa AI at Amazon. Her expertise is focused in natural language use cases, such as search and discovery, natural language understanding and generation, and she led the development and launch of the first automatically-generated summaries of web content on Alexa in 2020. (And yes, it used transformer models like those that drive ChatGPT!) As a leader in the intersection of Product Management and Machine Learning, she is passionate about DEI in the space and empowering more people to understand, leverage and participate in the field. She is an experienced angel investor and past corporate board member, has advised multiple startups, and speaks on panels and conferences about Product Management, Ethics and DEI in AI. She holds a M.Sc. in Software Engineering from MIT and the University of Victoria, and an MBA from the University of British Columbia.

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Course schedule

4-6 hours per week

  • Tuesday, December 3rd

    8:00 - 9:30am PST

    8:00 - 9:30am Pacific Time

    11:00 - 12:30pm Eastern Time

    5:00 - 6:30pm British Standard Time


    AI Product Discovery Workshop

    This workshop includes time to practice the frameworks we're learning with group breakouts and hands-on exercises. Recording will be available.

  • Wednesday, December 4th

    8:00 - 9:30am PST

    8:00 - 9:30am Pacific Time

    11:00 - 12:30pm Eastern Time

    5:00 - 6:30pm British Standard Time


    Design Considerations for AI Systems

    Get ready to tour the world of innovative UI user experiences. Recording will be available.

  • Tuesday, December 10th

    8:00am - 9:30am PST

    8:00 - 9:30am Pacific Time

    11:00 - 12:30pm Eastern Time

    5:00 - 6:30pm British Standard Time


    Data & Technical Plans for AI Products

    We'll dive deep into data considerations and how to choose between emerging architecture frameworks in AI systems. Recording will be available.

  • Wednesday, December 11th

    8:00 - 9:30 am

    8:00 - 9:30am Pacific Time

    11:00 - 12:30pm Eastern Time

    5:00 - 6:30pm British Standard Time


    AI Protoyping and Validation

    Get ready for a fast-paced ride through the world of tool for AI prototyping and validation. Recording will be available.

  • Weekly projects

    2-3 hours per week

    Put aside 2-3 hours to work on your AI project idea between sessions. You'll be guided with a workbook to consider the most important decision points.

  • Network & Get Feedback

    As Needed

    Join our Slack community that lives on even beyond the course! Network with like-minded product and design leaders, and get feedback on your projects and progress.

Learning is better with cohorts

Learning is better with cohorts

Active hands-on learning

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Interactive and project-based

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

Learn with a cohort of peers

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

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