Sentient Design: Craft Radically Adaptive Experiences with AI
Two-Day Online Workshop: Join product design leaders and Sentient Design authors Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred to explore the already-here future of intelligent interfaces and radically adaptive experiences.
Sentient Design is the practice of creating experiences that are aware of context and intent to respond in the moment. You’ll learn the framework and techniques to design them responsibly by prototyping an experience over the course of two days.
This hands-on, zero-hype workshop provides measured, practical techniques that you can use today—like right now—to imagine surprising new experiences or to improve existing products. You’ll go way beyond chatbots to explore the full landscape of intelligent interfaces through four key postures—tools, agents, copilots, and chat—plus a dozen new experience patterns you can put to use immediately.
Who Should Attend
This workshop is perfect for designers, product owners/managers, and design-minded developers who want to understand AI as a design material, not just a tool. If you’re curious about how to make AI work for people (instead of the other way around), this is for you.
What You’ll Learn
Hands-On Prototyping
- Prototype a new product: identify, imagine, and bring to life AI-powered features that solve real problems (not just “because AI”)
- Get your hands dirty working with models directly to learn their strengths and quirks
- Wire interface to intent by using a LLM to control the behavior of your prototype
Design Patterns & Practices
- Explore radically adaptive interfaces that are conceived in real-time based on user context and intent
- Discover emerging UX patterns that go beyond “slap a chatbot on it”
- Adopt techniques for grounded, predictable experiences when your interface has a mind of its own
- Guide user behavior to match the system’s ability
Responsible AI Design
- Use responsible practices that build trust and transparency
- Balance opportunities and risks in AI-powered experiences
What You’ll Need
- An open mind
- A healthy mix of imagination and skepticism
No prior AI or machine learning experience is required. You bring the human intelligence, and we’ll supply the artificial kind.
Meet Your Instructors
Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred are authors of Sentient Design, the forthcoming book from Rosenfeld Media. Josh is a 30-year design veteran and principal of design agency Big Medium. Veronika is designer and researcher at Big Medium. Both solve problems and design what’s next alongside some of the world’s biggest companies.
Register
Dec 10–11, 2025
11:00am – 3:00pm ET Check your time zone
$895 ($995 after Nov 19)
Feb 11–12, 2026
11:00am – 3:00pm ET Check your time zone
$895 ($995 after Jan 22)
Training a Team?
Email us about discounts for five or more.
Plan private team training (online or in-person).
Questions?
Contact josh@bigmedium.com for more information.
