​🧠 For UX & product professionals | 🕒 1.5 hours | 👥 30 seats | 💵 $88 Standard / $56 Uxcel Pro

​Design faster. Think sharper. Let AI handle the grunt work.

​Start 2026 with a new kind of superpower: knowing how to work with AI like a design teammate, not just a new tool.

​In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to use AI as your practical UX co-designer. From generating personas to structuring flows and sparking early design concepts, you’ll see how smart prompting can help you move faster, unblock ideas, and focus your energy where human insight matters most.

​Led by Elizabete Staerfeldt, a UX & Service Designer with 10+ years of experience working with Fortune 500 and global teams, you’ll learn the methods she uses to integrate AI into high-stakes product and service design.

​🧠 What You’ll Learn

• ​How to write effective UX prompts that produce usable outputs

• ​When to trust AI, and when to trust your gut

• ​Reusable prompt templates for real projects

​🕒 Agenda

• ​Welcome & Why This Matters

  • ​Why prompting is quickly becoming a must-have UX skill

  • ​Real examples of how designers use AI today: research, personas, early prototypes

• ​How AI Actually Responds to You

  • ​What AI is great at — and where it confidently fails

  • ​The anatomy of prompts that generate useful UX outputs

  • ​A before/after demo showing how small prompt tweaks can lead to big results

• ​Prep: Pick a Direction

  • ​Choose a product theme to work on

  • ​Get familiar with the shared board we’ll use for ideas and outputs

• ​Hands-On Activity: Turn Ideas into Personas

  • ​Use a simple, reusable structure to write your first persona prompt

  • ​Generate personas live with an AI tool

  • ​Share and compare outputs with the group

  • ​Quiet time to explore and refine on your own

• ​Spot the Patterns

  • ​Identify what made some prompts more effective than others

  • ​Recognize where AI hallucinated, assumed too much, or missed the point

  • ​Discuss practical constraints that helped produce better, clearer results

• ​Prompting for Prototypes

  • ​A checklist for writing prompts that guide usable prototype concepts

  • ​Walk through an example: prompt → AI output

  • ​Understand the strengths and limits of different AI tools for prototyping

• ​Build a Prototype Concept with AI

  • ​Craft and test a prototype prompt

  • ​Generate a rough concept using your chosen tool

  • ​Share what you made — plus live tips, guidance, and troubleshooting from Elizabete

• ​Reflect, Share & Next Steps

  • ​Discussion & final takeaways

  • ​Reusable prompt templates, and guidance for applying this approach to real projects

​👤 Who Should Attend

​UX and product designers looking to work faster and smarter by integrating AI into their daily design practice.

​🎙️ Meet Your Instructor

​Elizabete Staerfeldt is a UX & Service Designer with over a decade of experience helping global teams build products inside complex systems — from Fortune 500s to AI-driven startups.

​She specializes in using AI throughout the UX workflow, from research and synthesis to prototyping and decision-making. A seasoned mentor, speaker, and hands-on facilitator, Elizabete helps designers apply AI in practical, real-world ways — with a sharp eye on what still requires human judgment.

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​​​📌 Notes

• ​​​All workshops include access to a full recording.

• ​​​If you’re planning to expense this session, please purchase using your company card directly. We’re might not be able to issue formal invoices after payment.

• ​​​Tickets are non-refundable once the session has started.