Design Patterns For AI Interfaces

New

6 Weeks

Cohort-based Course

How to design useful AI features that people understand, use and trust — with 100s of real-life examples and practical UX guidelines.

Design Patterns For AI Interfaces

New

6 Weeks

Cohort-based Course

How to design useful AI features that people understand, use and trust — with 100s of real-life examples and practical UX guidelines.

Hosted by

Vitaly Friedman

Senior UX Lead with European Parliament, founder of SmashingMag.

Vitaly Friedman

Senior UX Lead with European Parliament, founder of SmashingMag.

Course overview

Design AI features that actually work for people.

As product teams race to integrate AI in products, they too often rely on good old-fashioned patterns like an assistant, or a chatbot. However, these AI experiences are often painfully slow, the responses are generic and users have to meticulously explain to AI just what exactly they need — over and over and over again.

In this course, we’ll explore what designers need to know about AI to design effective and meaningful AI experiences. We'll explore AI limitations and constraints, frequent usability and accessibility issues, how to deal with voice UIs and multi-modal experiences — and how to orchestrate UX for agents, with guardrails, permissions and confidence levels.

☕️ Bring your preferred coffee mug! We’ll be spending a lot of time, sketching, designing, and thinking. Be ready to challenge your general view of the AI design process.

You’ll leave the course with a toolbox of practical techniques and design patterns to apply to your projects right away. This isn’t a workshop on how to use AI to design, but how to apply design patterns and design process to help your users make the most out of your AI-enhanced products.

Interactive workshop includes:

🪴 100s of practical real-life examples

🔬 Recent UX research on AI usability and accessibility

🎯 Practical, hands-on projects to apply your learnings

👋 Live interactive sessions and live feedback

👫 Inclusive, friendly community for all your questions

🧰 Toolbox of practical patterns, techniques, examples

🏅 Well-deserved certificate for your hard work

Who I made this course for

Product designers who want to understand the constraints of AI and how to design effective AI experiences that people trust and use.

UX Leads who want to learn how to design feasible and effective AI features that don't frustrate people but help them get their work done.

Interface designers who want to boost their AI design skills and understand what makes a truly incredible AI experience.

Product designers who want to understand the constraints of AI and how to design effective AI experiences that people trust and use.

UX Leads who want to learn how to design feasible and effective AI features that don't frustrate people but help them get their work done.

Interface designers who want to boost their AI design skills and understand what makes a truly incredible AI experience.

The curious minds who want to understand what makes a truly incredible AI experience — and how to spot (or fix) the bad ones.

What you’ll get out of this course

Design AI features from scratch

You'll be working on hands-on assignments, live with people around the world — with specific AI UX challenges from real-world projects. You will receive feedback on your work as well.

State of AI in 2026

How people use AI interfaces, main slowdowns, blockers, usability and accessibility issues.

How AI actually works under the hood

Get under the hood of how AI works and learn how design choices can shape (or derail) AI output.

Why chatbots often don't work

Understand why chatbot UIs can be more frustrating than helpful — and what we can use instead.

Scaffolding For AI

Learn where AI typically lives — from collapsible widgets and contextual overlays to canvases, assistants, omniboxes and quiet AI.

Input UX, Output UX, Refinement UX

How to help people provide better input, make sense of AI output and refine it to match user's needs well.

Designing for Agentic UX

Support decision-making and complex workflows — with guardrails, permissions, approval flows and human in the loop.

Designing Loops, Not Flows

Why linear customer journeys often don't map well with AI features, and how we need to change our process to design AI loops instead.

Estimating AI effort, measuring AI impact

Tools and methods to scope AI features and track their real-world usefulness.

Designing for trust and confidence

Design strategies that build confidence and clarity around AI behaviors and decisions.

What’s included

Live sessions

Learn directly from Vitaly Friedman 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

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

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

11 live sessions • 36 lessons

Week 1

Jan 19—Jan 25

Let's get to know each other!

1 item

Jan

👋 Optional: Let's get to know each other!

Thu 1/226:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

Optional

Thu 2/266:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

Optional

Reviewing AI Project Assignments

1 item

What people are saying about Vitaly

Vitaly is better than ever, and we get to watch it all from the comfort of home! The course is so fun and immersive you won’t even notice you’re learning. You’ll feel like you’re getting to have a one-on-one conversation with one of the greatest design and development educators.

Anna E. Cook

Senior Product Designer

“So much of expertise in one place!”. Vitaly has been a relentless force for good in the digital design space for years now. With this beautifully captured video series, so much of his expertise is in one place. There is something for everyone here!

Ben Callahan

Design Systems Specialist, Designer

As usual, Vitaly shines in what he does best: being a wonderful teacher and thought leader in the field. Vitaly takes time to explain foundational concepts and moves us to more complex ideas and applications. Every lesson has a downloadable and gorgeous file to keep for reference.

Alma Hoffmann

Associate Professor at University of South Alabama

Years of research and experience by one of the most prolific members of the web community has been distilled and condensed into this course. So whether you’re a designer or a developer who frequently works with designers, you’ll find something in this course for you. Take this course; you won’t regret it.

Sara Soueidan

Web UI and Design Systems Engineer

Meet your instructor

Vitaly Friedman

Hello, my name is Vitaly Friedman, I love beautiful content and don’t like to give in easily. As a UX Lead, over the last 3 years, I’ve been scouting the web for reliable and effective AI design patterns. I was honored to explore what works and what doesn’t, how people use AI, when they struggle and succeed and when they trust and use AI. All these learnings and insights from all these years are now collected in this video course.

Over the years, I was wearing many hats, as designer and as developer, being involved in UX, interface design, usability testing and performance optimization.

I love love writing articles about the web, speaking, workshopping and teaching. I’m the editor-in-chief and creative lead of Smashing Magazine. In my spare time, I’m a front-end & UX consultant in Europe and abroad, working with big and small companies and organizations, such as European Parliament, Haufe-Lexware, Axel-Springer and others.

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