Build
Make something useful and role-relevant instead of copying a tutorial artifact.
EducationCreative practice pathway
CRAFTAI for Designers
Keep your judgment in the loop.
CRAFT is a five-part framework for using AI across research, creative direction, making, critique, and delivery without surrendering authorship or the design system.
Pathway lead
Amy Taylor
What you leave withCreate a role-relevant design project, document where AI helped and failed, test it with people, publish the decision trail, and deploy the final case study through Alternate Clouds.
Required in every masterclass
Create the account. Deploy the work.
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Every learner creates an Alternate Clouds account during class.
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Every learner deploys the course-specific project template—not a generic demo.
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Completion requires a working deployment URL and the proof artifact named in the lesson.
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Every input and output must be original, licensed, public domain, or covered by documented permission.
5 masterclasses
The pathway
01CContext, Constraints, and Creative DirectionWrite the design problem before asking a model to decorate it.02RResearch, References, and Responsible InputsUse AI to see the evidence—not launder it into certainty.03AAugmented Making and PrototypingUse AI as a material, not a slot machine.04FFeedback, Fidelity, and FairnessMake the system critique the work without letting it grade itself.05TTeam Systems, Traceability, and DeliveryShip the work without losing the decisions that made it trustworthy.
Final✓The AI-Augmented Design Case StudyIntegrate the pathway and defend the evidence.
Course completion is not the outcome.
The work has to survive contact with reality.
Break
Test a bounded failure, weak output, inaccessible path, or wrong assumption.
Prove
Publish the decision, evidence, correction, limitation, and working result.
Founding pathway