Innovate with ChatGPT: AI Tools and Prompts for Design Thinking, Idea Generation and Communication

This online program is a demonstration of how to use AI (esp. ChatGPT) to help you brainstorm or generate ideas - and then develop those ideas into concepts or useful things for your work. AI can be a powerful tool to use in your innovation, design thinking, or ideation projects. We demonstrate how to use popular tools to generate and develop ideas for a number of questions and purpose. Follow along with the video and try it yourself for a different way to brainstorm or ideate new ideas or directions.

Our "how to videos" demonstrate how to get quickly and simply started with AI tools like ChatGPT or MiroAI to ideate and innovate using classic techniques. Get help starting from the "blank page" with many ideas. Creatively diverge and converge using popular ideation tools like SCAMPER, combination mashups, famous person catalysts, or new technology applications. Pose questions to get numerous ideas from the AI tool. Select and conceptualize the best ideas.

Use these tools and techniques at the ideation stage of any design thinking framework. Let the AI help you to get many ideas or concepts you can start to develop, describe, and prototype.

In the videos we demonstrate using a number of example challenges, problems, or opportunities you might be able to relate to. Follow along and try the same activities or similar questions with your own challenge on the AI tools of your choice.

We are always adding more modules to this course heavy on practical applications of ChatGPT to help you be more productive and innovate in your work. Each module of this course stands alone, so just pick and choose what you'd like to learn or do without worrying about having to go through a sequence.