Workshops

2026 AI Workshops for UX Designers and Researchers

Design and ship better AI-powered experiences—faster, smarter, and with more confidence. Our live, virtual series offers a coherent, deep dive into AI for UX, product, and service designers, with multiple runs across 2026 so you can plan budget and block your calendar in advance. You’ll:

  • Learn from acknowledged industry experts
  • Dig into rigorous, real-world frameworks and hands-on exercises
  • Explore AI strictly from a UX and product perspective
  • You’ll log off energized, with concrete outcomes you can put in front of your team and your boss.

Register for April, June, or October sessions now. Or contact [email protected] to bring these in-house for your team.

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Upcoming workshops

Service Designers as AI-Readiness Leaders: Orchestrating Change Across the Organization

with Erika Flowers

8 hours over 2 days: multiple dates

In this interactive workshop, NASA Digital Service alum Erika Flowers shows how service designers can lead their organizations through AI readiness: the process of aligning people, processes, and systems before technology enters the scene. Drawing from Erika’s AI-Readiness in a Box framework, participants will leave with a practical toolkit, facilitation materials, and the confidence to position service design as the engine of organizational AI transformation.

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AI for UX Research

with Llewyn Paine

8 hours over 2 days: multiple dates

In this workshop, you’ll use transparent, custom-built AI research tools to observe exactly how AI impacts research data and business decisions. Through hands-on experimentation, grounded in academic research and controlled testing, you’ll gain an accurate understanding of AI’s capabilities and failure modes for common research approaches.

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Designing AI for Humans

with Dan Saffer

8 hours over 2 days: multiple dates

This workshop teaches a set of techniques that designers, product managers, and researchers can start using immediately. It adapts what we’ve been teaching our graduate students at Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute for working practitioners: short lectures to introduce each method, then hands-on exercises to practice it. You’ll work in teams on real concepts, not hypotheticals.

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Designing AI to Make Users Smarter

with Chris Noessel

8 hours over 2 days: multiple dates

AI is full of promise for users, but it introduces risk as well. The two we’ll talk about in this session are over-reliance and deskilling. Over-reliance is when users trust an AI’s output too much. Deskilling is when users lose skills they previously had, but handed off to the AI; with implications not just for users but for labor relations as well. The good news is that you as a designer can do something about each of these. Come hear Christopher Noessel introduce the problems, share examples, and walk us through the patterns we can implement to help take some of the sting out of AI.

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Leading AI Adoption for Design and Product Teams

with Changying “Z” Zheng

8 hours over 2 days: October 28-29, 2026

Your team is being asked to adopt AI. Where to start?

By the end of this workshop, you’ll have a practical framework to assess your team’s readiness, identify adoption gaps, and build a concrete action plan to move from experimentation to measurable impact.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Will I be able to ask the instructor questions?
Yes, you will be able to communicate with the instructor (and, likely, other attendees) via Zoom (audio and chat). Instructors may also choose to use Slack as well.

Do I need any special technology to attend this workshop?
You’ll access the workshop via Zoom. Individual workshops may also use other tools, like Slack for discussion and virtual whiteboards (e.g., MURAL, Miro) for collaborative work. We’ll make sure you know well in advance of any technical requirements beyond using Zoom.

As this is a remotely taught workshop that includes video, please ideally have fast WiFi or Ethernet connection if at all possible, and quit applications running in the background that might rob your connection’s bandwidth.

Are you offering any discounts?
Groups of 3 or more can get 10% off for groups of 3 or more. Use the code GROUP at checkout.

If you work in government, education, or for a not-for-profit organization, all individual ticket prices are discounted by 25%. Enter code DISCOUNT25 during registration. Register using a .gov, .org, or .edu email address.

 

Will I get to watch recordings?
Yes, we will make recordings of your workshop available within about a week after the workshop concludes.

What other content will be provided?
As a registered attendee, you’ll receive access to workbooks, the instructor’s deck, and other materials the instructor may provide you.

What if I have technical problems?
We encourage you to test your technology prior to the workshop. We’ll offer a technology troubleshooting session just before the workshop begins.

What should I do if I need closed-captioning?
Upon request, we’ll provide you with closed-captioned access to the presentations. If you have other accessibility-related needs or questions, please email [email protected] ASAP to let us know.

How many people are allowed to watch the workshop on my end?
Your ticket is for a single attendee only. We do make group discounts available as well; select the group ticket type when registering.