Build like an architect: Advanced AI for designers

As UX professionals, we're experts at understanding users – but we've always handed off at delivery. The actual building belonged to someone else.

AI is changing that. We can now go from insights to working product ourselves. In hours, not sprints. The less building depends on code, the more it depends on knowing what to build. That's us.

The catch: AI makes it easy to build something generic. Building something specific and good requires skills the tool doesn't give you. They come from you.

This hands-on workshop teaches the method:

- Think like an architect: you bring the vision and the plan.
- Partner with AI: work with AI as your contractor to structure your insights and artifacts into a blueprint.
- Build and iterate: the blueprint guides your team as you build a working prototype together.
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Bring your own laptop with Claude Code or Codex installed and signed in – these are the tools Brian demonstrates and supports – plus an active paid plan (from around €20 per month) with enough usage left for a two-hour hands-on session. Your tool needs to be able to open and edit files in a local project folder; running it as an app, from the command line or in an IDE such as VSCode all work, and you should already be comfortable using it. GitHub Copilotor or Gemini CLI can also work, but you'll be running your own setup. Brian will send you a prepared project folder in advance – download it, open it in your tool and complete the short setup check before the session.

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Please make sure you have a reliable internet connection: you'll get a personal Wi-Fi code for the university network, but some company laptops block it. Test your setup beforehand and keep USB tethering from your phone ready as a fallback.