63 CARDS · 5 CATEGORIES · 4 GAME MODES

Design
with AI

A digital card deck for designers who want to harness AI as a creative partner and AI assistant. 63 AI prompts for designers — challenges, insights, and wildcards to transform how your team collaborates with AI in workshops.

R
REFRAME
A
ANALYSIS
Q
QUESTION
C
CRITIQUE
C
CRAFT
63
Total Cards
5
Categories
4
Game Modes
45m
Workshop

Five Dimensions of AI Collaboration for Designers

Each category targets a different aspect of AI collaboration for designers, from reframing mindsets about AI as a partner to craft-specific AI prompts for your discipline.

How the AI Workshop Works

Three simple steps to run an AI workshop and transform your design team's relationship with AI as a partner.

01

Draw Cards

Select a game mode and draw AI prompt cards from the deck. Each card contains an AI prompt for designers, a challenge, insight, or wildcard designed to spark AI collaboration in your workshop.

02

Use AI as Partner

Copy the AI prompts for designers directly into your AI assistant of choice — Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot. Use AI as a partner to guide your conversation, not replace your thinking.

03

Build Question Maps

Capture the questions that emerge. The most powerful output isn't answers — it's the trail of questions that led to unexpected insights.

Human and AI collaboration

AI Won't Replace Designers.
It Will Amplify It.

This AI collaboration deck is built on a simple truth: the designers who thrive won't be the ones who know AI best — they'll be the ones who ask the best questions of their AI assistant, for customers.

Every card is designed to build confidence progressively, from safe comparisons to bold creative exploration. Whether you're a UX researcher, service designer, visual designer, content strategist, or research lead — there's a path through this deck for you.

THE CAPABILITY FRAMEWORK
AI EXCELS AT
Pattern recognition, volume processing, alternative perspectives
HUMANS EXCEL AT
Judgment, empathy, contextual nuance, ethical decisions
TOGETHER
Deeper customer understanding than either alone

Choose Your AI Workshop Play Mode

From quick random AI prompt draws to full 45-minute facilitated AI workshops for designers, pick the mode that fits your moment.

WORKSHOP ARTIFACT

Build Question Maps
That Change Everything

The most powerful output of this deck isn't answers — it's questions. Each game mode guides teams to build "Question Maps" — visual trails of the questions that led to unexpected insights.

These maps become shared artifacts for your community of practice, seeding ongoing exploration and building a collective intelligence about how AI amplifies design thinking.

Question Map visualization
"The designers who'll thrive aren't the ones who know AI best — they're the ones who ask the best questions OF AI FOR customers."

You already know how to ask great questions. Now learn to ask them at scale.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about using AI as a design partner and running AI workshops.

What is Design with AI?+
Design with AI is a digital card deck of 63 prompts, challenges, insights, and wildcards created by Tony Wood. It helps designers learn to use AI as a thinking partner rather than a replacement. The deck includes ready-to-use AI prompts for tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot, plus 4 interactive game modes for running AI workshops with design teams.
How can designers use AI as a creative partner?+
Designers can use AI as a creative partner by reframing how they approach AI collaboration. Rather than asking AI to do the design work, designers should use AI to amplify their existing skills — asking better research questions, generating alternative perspectives, stress-testing assumptions, and exploring edge cases. The Design with AI card deck provides 63 structured prompts across 5 categories to guide this collaboration.
What AI prompts work best for designers?+
The best AI prompts for designers focus on augmenting human judgment rather than replacing it. Effective categories include: Reframe prompts that challenge assumptions, Analysis prompts that help process research data at scale, Question Generator prompts that surface unexpected lines of inquiry, Critique prompts that stress-test design decisions, and Craft-Specific prompts tailored to UX research, service design, visual design, and content strategy.
How do you run an AI workshop for designers?+
The Design with AI deck offers a 45-minute facilitated workshop flow: Start with Reframe cards to shift mindsets (10 min), use Analysis Amplifier cards for hands-on AI comparison exercises (10 min), move to Question Generator cards to build Question Maps (10 min), apply Critique cards to stress-test findings (10 min), and close with reflection (5 min). Each card includes AI prompts ready to copy into your AI assistant of choice.
Can AI replace designers?+
AI will not replace designers, but it will amplify their craft. The designers who thrive will not be those who know AI best — they will be the ones who ask the best questions of AI, for customers. AI is a powerful tool for augmenting research, analysis, and ideation, but human judgment, empathy, and contextual understanding remain irreplaceable in the design process.
Who is the Design with AI card deck for?+
The deck is designed for UX researchers, service designers, visual designers, content strategists, research leads, and design facilitators who want to integrate AI into their practice. It works for individuals exploring AI prompts, small teams running quick exercises, or large groups in facilitated 45-minute AI workshops.