From Zero to Product: Building with AI as a Designer

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From Zero to Product: Building with AI as a Designer

Hosted by Krystian Zun and Xinran Ma

669 students

What you'll learn

Think in prompts, not just pixels

Working with AI means shifting how you think. You don’t need to know how to code, but know how to guide it.

From Idea to Revenue

How Krystian went through the whole loop: validated demand, built a waitlist, grew page views, and monetised it.

Building and Automating with AI

How I built new features and automated nearly all operations without knowing how to code.

Lessons from Building in Public

What worked (and what didn’t) from sharing the journey online, and how small projects can lead to amazing opportunities.

Why this topic matters

This talk shows you don’t need to know how to code to build something real with AI — but you do need to understand how things connect under the hood. If you can think in prompts, shape ideas, and stay technically curious, you can launch, grow, and even monetize your work. This is a hands-on look at going from idea to impact — using the tools already at your fingertips.

You'll learn from

Krystian Zun

Product Designer | Serial Product Builder

Krystian is a product designer and maker in love with building and shipping products that provide value. He’s spent the last 7+ years building 0–1 products for startups in web, mobile, and XR.

Outside of work, Krystian spends his time launching side projects, testing ideas in public, and running small experiments — from building XR Jobs Board and AI workflows to growing online and in-person communities from scratch. All of it is driven by his belief that trying lots of small things is the best way to uncover big ideas.

Connect with Krystian on LinedIn

Xinran Ma

Founder of Design with AI | 3x Author

Xinran Ma is the founder of Design with AI (designwithai.co), speaker, and award-winning designer.

Design with AI is one of the fastest-growing AI communities with over 10k subscribers from companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, and McKinsey.

Xinran is the author of multiple Amazon #1 New Release books in UX. He has been awarded ADPList's Top 1% Mentor in Design 5 times.

He regularly delivers lectures and conducts AI workshops at places such as Microsoft, Columbia Business School, UXPA, University of Connecticut, and Pratt Institute.

Xinran also teaches the course AI for Product Designers on Maven.

Connect with Xinran on LinkedIn

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