45-867 Designing AI Products & Experiences

6 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course introduces a human-centered approach to designing AI-powered products and experiences. We'll examine AI's capabilities and limits, and the design opportunities in user control versus automation, trust and explainability, and conversational and generative agents. The course is not about coding, but shaping AI into usable and strategically valuable products. Alongside lectures and discussions, you will design an AI-powered product—defining a human challenge, mastering UI/UX best practices, developing creative concepts, and prototyping in Figma. By the end, you will have taken an AI product from idea to a prototype, gaining powerful design tools and principles you can apply in product management, consulting, entrepreneurship, or any path where intelligent products are reshaping business.

Prerequisites: none listed

Offered: Spring 2027, Fall 2026

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