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 (Reframe, Analysis Amplifier, Question Generator, Critique & Unblock, and Craft-Specific) 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 about user needs, 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 from multiple angles, and Craft-Specific prompts tailored to UX research, service design, visual design, and content strategy.

How do you run an AI workshop for designers?

To run an AI workshop for designers, you need a structured approach that builds confidence progressively. The Design with AI deck offers a 45-minute facilitated workshop flow: Start with Reframe cards to shift mindsets (10 min), then 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 ChatGPT, Claude, or Copilot.

What is AI collaboration in design?

AI collaboration in design means treating AI as a thinking partner that amplifies human capabilities. AI excels at pattern recognition, processing volume, and generating alternative perspectives. Humans excel at judgment, empathy, contextual nuance, and ethical decisions. Together, they achieve deeper customer understanding than either alone. The key is asking the right questions of AI, for customers — not outsourcing creative thinking to AI.

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.

AI Workshop Game Modes — Design with AI Interactive Card Games

The AI-ssistant Draw

Compare your human analysis skills with AI-assisted analysis. You'll analyze the same research artifact twice — first manually, then with AI prompts.

How it works:

Phase 1 (4 min): Analyze your research artifact manually

Phase 2 (4 min): Re-analyze using AI prompt cards

Phase 3: Compare findings — what did each approach reveal?