Workshop: Craft AI-Powered Experiences with Sentient Design

Now available! We offer private workshops to teach product and design teams to imagine, design, and deliver AI-powered features and products. It’s all backed by Big Medium’s Sentient Design methodology, a practical framework for designing intelligent interfaces that are radically adaptive to user needs and intent. We’ve been doing these workshops at conferences and with our clients, and now we want to share them with you. These workshops are available to organizations that would like to offer a private workshop for their design or product teams.

These measured, pragmatic workshops are zero hype. They provide real-world AI literacy and practical techniques that your team can use today—like right now—to imagine surprising new experiences or to improve existing products. You and your team will discover entirely new interaction paradigms, along with new challenges and responsibilities, too. This demands fresh perspective, technique, and process; Sentient Design provides the framework for delivering this new kind of experience.

What’s in the workshop?

Our Sentient Design workshops are immersive, hands-on experiences that guide participants through the whole life cycle of designing machine-intelligent experiences. Here’s what we’ll do together:

• Prototype a new product: identify, imagine, and design AI-powered features that solve real problems (not just “because AI”).
• Learn to use machine-generated content and interaction as design material in your everyday work.
• Use machine intelligence to deliver entirely new interactions or simply elevate traditional interfaces.
• Explore radically adaptive interfaces that are conceived in real-time based on user context and intent.
• Get your hands dirty working with models directly to learn their strengths and quirks.
• Discover emerging UX patterns and postures that go way beyond “slap a chatbot on it.”
• Learn the art of defensive design. AI can be… unpredictable (and weird, wrong, and biased, too). Make its weirdness an asset instead of a liability.
• Adopt techniques to set user expectations and guide behavior to match the system’s ability.
• Use responsible practices that build trust and transparency.

The workshops mix it up with lecture (the fun kind), discussion, and hands-on exercises. You and your team will put theory into practice through collaborative design sessions, prototyping exercises, and critical analysis of real-world AI applications. By the end of the workshop, your team will have a solid foundation in Sentient Design principles and a toolkit of techniques and design patterns to apply in your work.

Who it’s for

This workshop is perfect for designers, product owners/managers, and design-minded developers who want to stay ahead of the curve in AI-powered experiences. If you’re curious about how to make AI work for people (instead of the other way around), this is for you.

The workshop can flex to accommodate groups from 10 to 100 people.

Who’s teaching?

The workshops are led by Big Medium’s Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred, authors of Sentient Design, the forthcoming book from Rosenfeld Media.

Reserve your workshop

Get in touch with Josh Clark to explore availability and pricing.

We offer flexible formats to suit your team’s needs:

• Half-day introduction
• Full-day immersion
• Two-day comprehensive program

The workshops may be offered online via video conference or in person. No special preparation is required for your team. No prior AI or machine-learning experience is required—only a healthy mix of imagination and skepticism. Bring your human intelligence, and we’ll supply the artificial kind.

Workshops are flat-rate (not by number of attendees). Half-day workshops start at $5000, and pricing varies for length and for remote vs in-person.

Our workshops are also available at our frequent speaking events. Here’s what’s coming up: