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PRD-301

Designing AI Products

How AI features become products people actually use — and how to avoid the chatbot-shaped trap most teams fall into first.

PRD-301 — Designing AI Products
ABOUT THIS COURSE

What you will learn.

Most AI features ship as chatbots, get used twice, and quietly disappear from the product. That is not a model problem; it is a product-design problem, and it is fixable by people who care to think hard about it.

This five-week course is for engineers, PMs, and engineering managers who own AI features and want to ship ones that get adopted. We cover the shape of AI features that work, the decision of when to use chat (rarely) versus structured surfaces (usually), latency and trust as product variables, error and refusal design, onboarding and discovery for AI capability, evaluation from a product lens (not only an engineering one), and the rituals that keep an AI-product team aligned.

This is the course most often taken by senior engineers preparing for an EM transition. Half of each cohort is engineers; the other half is PMs.

WHAT YOU’LL BUILD

Four substantial projects.

Project 01

An AI-feature design review

Take an existing AI feature (yours or one we provide) and write a design critique with a redesign proposal.

Project 02

A non-chat AI surface

Design — at the spec level — an AI feature that is not a chatbot, and defend the choice.

Project 03

An error-and-trust playbook

Specify how your AI feature behaves when it is wrong, slow, or unsure — and how the user knows.

Project 04

A product-side eval

Build an evaluation rubric that measures what users care about, not only what engineers can score.

CURRICULUM

Week by week.

FIT

Who this is for — and who it is not.

For you if

  • Engineers who own an AI feature and want to learn the product half of the job.
  • Senior ICs preparing for an engineering management role.
  • Product managers paired with AI teams.

Probably not for you if

  • People looking for a beginner LLM course — try AI-101.
  • Pure researchers — this is applied product work.
  • Designers looking for visual design treatment of AI; this is upstream of that.
YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Taught by an operator.

Head of Product

Amelia Roy

Amelia led the AI features team at Notion through a period of rapid expansion, and previously held product roles at Figma and Asana. She is allergic to chatbot-shaped products and teaches a small, opinionated cohort each quarter on the design patterns and decision-making that distinguish AI features people use from AI features that ship to die. Engineers welcome — half of her cohort each round are senior ICs trying to learn the product side of the table.

FAQ

Questions we’re asked often.

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Designing AI Products

$1,400

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