For design managers
Leading AI Design Work
A four-week seminar for design managers who review AI work, staff it, and make the case for it to leadership.
$1,450
Cohort 4
March 2 to March 23
Applications close February 16
Full refund until the end of week one.
Your company can pay. Get the email for your manager
Next cohort
March 2 to March 23
Schedule
Tuesdays, 9 to 11 am PT (noon to 2 pm ET)
Length
4 weeks
Live sessions
4 seminars, 8 hours, and a 45-minute one-on-one with Nadia Kessler
Hours a week
About 4 hours a week
Group
16 people
Tuition
$1,450
Taught by
Nadia Kessler
What you’ll be able to do
Set a quality bar for an AI feature that designers and engineers agree on.
Run design reviews on work that gives a different answer every time.
Decide what a feature needs: which designers, which research, and how much evaluation.
Explain AI design tradeoffs to executives in terms of risk and cost.
Who it’s for
Design managers, leads, and heads of design with AI features on the roadmap.
Senior designers who run design reviews for AI work.
Who it’s not for
People who want to design the product themselves. That’s Designing AI Products.
Leaders looking for a general AI strategy course. We cover design work only.
Week by week
Setting a quality bar before the first screen: which failures are acceptable, which aren’t, and who decides.
A review format built on a sample of real outputs instead of the best screenshot. In pairs, you run it on another participant’s feature.
Where design sits in evaluation, what to ask of engineering, and how to hire for this work.
Presenting AI design decisions to executives as risk and cost. Each person gives a five-minute case in a small group and gets written feedback from Nadia and two peers.
The project
A real feature on your team’s roadmap. Over four weeks you write its quality bar, adapt a review format, plan who works on it, and present the case in a small group, as you would to your leadership.
Instructors
NK
Co-founder
Nadia Kessler
Fourteen years designing software, the last five on products built on language models. Between cohorts she still works with product teams.
From past cohorts
“Our reviews kept turning into arguments about one lucky screenshot. Now we look at ten real outputs, picked at random, before anyone talks about the interface.”
Hannah Brooks
Leading AI Design Work, Cohort 2
What’s included
4 two-hour seminars with Nadia Kessler, with recordings and written notes
A 45-minute one-on-one with Nadia on your quality bar or staffing plan, any time during the four weeks
The review format and quality bar templates
A certificate of completion for attending the seminars and presenting your case
Dates and tuition
Cohort 4 · March 2 to March 23 · Applications close February 16
Tuesdays, 9 to 11 am PT (noon to 2 pm ET). Seminars are recorded, but the pair and small-group work only happens live.
$1,450, one payment. No application or materials fees.
Your company can pay by invoice or purchase order. We send a W-9 on request.
Full refund until the end of week one.
Apply to Leading AI Design Work
A short application: your role, your team, and the AI work on your roadmap. We reply within a week.