Short course
Prototyping with Real Model Output
Three weeks of prototyping with a live model, so you design for long, slow, and uneven responses.
$1,250
Cohort 5
Next cohort in April
Enrollment opens in February
Full refund until the end of week one.
Your company can pay. Get the email for your manager
Next cohort
Next cohort in April
Schedule
Mondays and Wednesdays, 9 to 10:30 am PT (noon to 1:30 pm ET)
Length
3 weeks
Live sessions
6 live sessions, 9 hours
Hours a week
About 4 hours a week
Group
20 people
Tuition
$1,250
Taught by
Theo Baptiste
What you’ll be able to do
Build a working prototype that sends real requests to a model and shows whatever comes back.
Test a layout against long, cut-off, refused, slow, and off-format responses.
Design loading, streaming, and partial states against a live model’s real latency.
Walk an engineer through a prototype that already calls a model, so the handoff is about behavior, not a static file.
Who it’s for
Designers who have mocked AI features with made-up text and want real responses in their layouts.
Designers who have taken Designing AI Products, or who have shipped at least one AI feature.
Who it’s not for
Engineers looking for a coding course.
Anyone who needs a production build. These are prototypes.
Week by week
You start from our prototype kit and connect it to a model, using access we provide for the course. By Wednesday your own layout shows a real response.
Long answers, cut-off answers, refusals, slow answers, and answers in the wrong format. You run your prototype against a set of difficult requests and redesign the layout around what breaks.
Streaming, stopping, retrying, and partial results, against real latency. Then you walk an engineer through your prototype in a recorded handoff.
The project
One screen from a feature you’re working on, rebuilt as a prototype that calls a live model. Use only work you’re allowed to share outside your company, because requests go through our course access. If that rules out your feature, the three course briefs from Designing AI Products are available here too.
Instructors
TB
Co-founder
Theo Baptiste
Design engineer. Theo spent four years building prototyping and evaluation tools for an AI search team.
From past cohorts
“I’d been designing with made-up replies for a year. The first live output was longer than anything in my mockups, and it often asked a question instead of offering times.”
Ibrahim Nasser
Prototyping with Real Model Output, Cohort 3
What’s included
6 live sessions with Theo Baptiste, with recordings and written notes
The prototype kit, and model access for the three weeks
Open office hours every Friday
A certificate of completion for attending or watching every session and presenting your handoff
Dates and tuition
Next cohort in April · Enrollment opens in February
Mondays and Wednesdays, 9 to 10:30 am PT (noon to 1:30 pm ET). Every session is recorded.
$1,250, one payment. No application or materials fees.
People on the waitlist get the dates first and have a week to enroll before we open it to anyone else.
Full refund until the end of week one.
Join the waitlist for April
We’ll email you the dates first. You’ll have a week to enroll before we post them on this page.
Questions
Cohort 5 starts in April
Enrollment opens in February. Full refund until the end of week one.