Creating Enhanced User Personas & Stories with Ai
Cohort-based Course
A Superunknown Studios Personalized Project Ai Learning Experience
Creating Enhanced User Personas & Stories with Ai
Cohort-based Course
A Superunknown Studios Personalized Project Ai Learning Experience
Design x Ai Team Training
Course overview
Learn Ai-driven UX research, design, imagery, & video techniques in one course.
Creating Enhanced User Personas & Stories is a unique Ai personalized project learning experience in which you’ll learn how to use Ai tool chains to connect best-practice UX design methods with dynamic visual content to create user personas & stories beyond what you’ve ever imagined before.
This two-pack of interactive workshops features “Choose-Your-Own-Ideas” interactive learning. You’ll use your own ideas for a new company as a launchpad for your persona and then work in real-time to create your own enhanced persona & story with authentic personalities, rich backstories, and contextual visuals.
Creating Enhanced User Personas is a one-of-a-kind Ai educational experience that utilizes creativity as a conduit for increasing productivity and time to quality. The best-practices and techniques taught in this course are easily integrated with your real-world data and were a part of the training done with Netflix, Logitech, Bloomberg, and LEGO design teams.
Featured Ai tools:
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Midjourney
- Nano Banana
- Kling
Who this course is for
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All levels of Ai fluency & design experience: basic, intermediate, & advanced. I teach in a way that keeps everyone comfortable & engaged!
02
Anyone who wants to create authentic, hyperintelligent, diverse user personas with rich stories and stunning visuals.
03
Anyone who feels overwhelmed, has technostress, or FOMO about using Ai to amplify their storytelling & creative skillset.
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Anyone who wants to increase productivity and quality with actionable Ai skills and techniques that are immediately implementable.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of ChatGPT & Claude
Familiarity with the UI and features of ChatGPT & Claude.
Ai Tool Subscriptions (Req.)
ChatGPT Plus ($20 for a month) | Claude (free) | Perplexity (free) | Midjourney ($10 for a month) | Nano Banana ($8 for 1 month)
Ai Tool Subscriptions (Optional but recommended)
Claude Pro ($17 for a month) | Kling ($7.00 for a month)
What you’ll get out of this course
Your own unique, enhanced user persona and story with stunning visuals.
You'll take away your own user persona & story exemplar to use as a showpiece and reference tool for creating new personas & stories.
Take home a massive Ai reference materials FigJam board that is 3 years in the making.
Ever seen a FigJam board that goes all the way to the boundaries on each side? You will now. This epic board is not only our course playground but is also packed with Ai best-practices, exclusive techniques, tool tips, and multiple past project examples for extra learning.
Learn about the landscape.
Learn about the current landscape for Ai tools that are relevant to persona & story creation, including LLMs, dedicated research tools, synthetic user tools, and visual creation tools.
Connect real-world data with human-centered creativity.
Learn how to connect your real-world user research, marketing data, and business information with these Ai tools and techniques to enable immediate professional impact.
Complete creative control and independence.
"Yes, I hired a scriptwriter, researcher, graphic artist, photographer, and creative director to create this persona." You'll be able to make it look like you did after this course.
Add real-world context to your stories and visuals.
Want to show your personas in specific poses? Activities? Environments? Geographic locations? You'll learn how to do those things in this course.
Elevate your prompt design, Ai fluency, and GPT creation skills.
You’ll learn the basics and advanced techniques for designing prompts and constructing GPTs that will allow you to create intelligent, informed, and visually dynamic personas & stories.
Construct Ai tool & method chains.
Learn how to create Ai tool & method chains to make your own persona & story creation process efficient, repeatable, and impactful.
Exclusive techniques and pro-tips.
Welcome to the secret Ai creativity voodoo lounge. 🔮🍸🤫. You'll learn exclusive ChatGPT and Midjourney insider pro-tips, techniques, and magic tricks that are new-to-the-world and not taught anywhere else.
What’s included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Greg Aper in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to. (And believe me, you'll want to. 😁)
Hang with other awesome human beings
A lot of my cohorts actually start their own WhatsApp groups to stay connected because everyone is so cool. And my cohorts are global, too!
Certificate of completion
I have a sweet Design x Ai certificate for you. I can't be handing out banal, cookie-cutters certs when my company name is Superunknown. 🪐
A galaxy-sized FigJam Ai reference materials board
Multiple project examples, pro-tips, extra advanced techniques... the works. Past students say the board alone is worth the course price.
Fun, passion, and caring
I'm very lucky. I've always loved Ai and now I get to share my passion with you. You'll get everything I've got. 🤖❤️
Maven Guarantee
This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.
Course syllabus
Week 1
Feb
10
Workshop I: Building Authentic Human-Centered Personas & Stories
Feb
12
Workshop II: Creating Dynamic Visuals & Videos with Customized Context
Want to know more about this course or Ai for design in general?
Give me a holler. I'm always happy to help and chew the Ai fat.
Meet your instructor
Greg Aper
Greg is a globally recognized expert in the integration of artificial intelligence technologies for design. He combines formal ML education with 25 years of hands-on experience in numerous areas of the design craft, including qualitative research, UX design, UI design, industrial design, & brand design. Greg has led design programs with internationally recognized companies such as Bosch, Ford, Dell, Philips, Cisco, Samsung, Panasonic, Google, and Intel.
As the Chief Exploration Officer at Superunknown, Greg provides unrivaled Design x Ai training, public speaking, and consulting services to individual designers, studios, and corporate teams, including Netflix, LEGO, Bloomberg, and Logitech.
Greg is not new to the Ai scene - he has been speaking about the influence of Ai on design for the past decade. He is known for his live, improvisational Ai high wire talks and international cohort workshops. His current work focuses on the development of advanced design methods through exploration of design-centric Ai tool workflows and LLM psycholinguistics.
Greg is a full-time dog lover, part-time Chicago Cubs, Blackhawks, & Tottenham fan (depending on current pain tolerance level), amateur wildlife photographer, and professional Ai supergeek.
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