​AI Fundamentals for Designers

​Workshop 1 of 6 — AI for Designers Series

​The honest truth: most of us are using AI by accident.

​We copy a prompt from somewhere, paste it in, get something okay, and move on. We don't really understand what we're working with—which means we're leaving a lot on the table.

​Join this workshop to change that. Not with theory. With enough grounding that you actually understand what AI is, what it can and can't do, and which tools are worth your time as a designer.

​We'll level-set together. No prior experience needed, no judgment if you've never opened an AI tool before. We start here, and we start together.

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​Meet Your Hosts

​Michelle Yi Hsu is a product designer with roots in interior design who uses AI to turn imagination into something tangible, faster. She's worked across FinTech and IoT, and is currently based in the Bay Area.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-yi-hsu/

​Dhrumil Shah is a UX designer with backgrounds in IT and marketing. He uses AI like a working partner — from early concepts all the way to shipped products in healthcare and SaaS.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhrumil---shah/

​Parys G Khazaie came to design through political science and human rights. They use Claude, Cursor, and Figma MCP daily and care most about how AI changes the way you think, not just what you make.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/paryssatis/

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​Workshop Series

​AI for Designers
From understanding it
to building with it.

​6 workshops · Hands-on · Open to all designers

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​The tools are changing. The role is shifting. And most of us are figuring it out in real time.

This isn't a lecture series about what AI might do to design. It's a hands-on experience where you learn by doing—writing prompts, building prototypes, creating portfolios, and eventually shipping something you made with AI from scratch.

Whether you've never opened an AI tool or you're already experimenting, there's a place for you here.

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​What you'll walk away with

• ​A working AI toolkit for your daily design practice

• ​Prompt-writing skills you built yourself, not copied

• ​An AI-generated portfolio piece or case study

• ​Something you actually shipped with AI

• ​A clearer sense of where your career is headed

• ​A community of designers on the same journey

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​Join Designed Minds, a community for designers who believe career growth is a marathon, not a sprint — and that no one should run it alone.

​www.designedminds.co