You can build anything now. The question is whether it feels like yours. A cohort crash course in designing with AI, judgment first, tools second.
For designers going agentic, product managers, and founders & small-business owners dreaming of launching exceptional apps.
The problem?
the same
Demo: five near-identical apps generate one after another; only the accent colour and a size ever change.
Five apps. One template. Only the accent and the radius ever changed.
The edge now isn't being able to code something; it's understanding what the client needs, learning to meet it, and speaking their languageOnly a human has taste, the thing that makes a product feel considered
Start from the change you want in the world, not from how it looks. Everything downstream serves that. The method is five moves, in order: the tools are interchangeable, the order is not.
The skills you actually use, and how they fit together. Toss the chips around. Tap one to open it.
Before week one (async): build a working model of LLMs, set up your keys and terminal, and learn the tool map. So the cohort opens on judgment, not setup. New to agentic tools? Foundation is your on-ramp — take it live before the cohort starts, or as a recording with interactive exercises.
Name the job — and what it refuses to be.
A one-page brief — goal, switching forces, anti-values.
You decide what your product must do — and what it must never look like.
Turn emotional intent into structured guidelines.
A brand-guidelines doc and an on-palette asset set.
Your taste becomes written rules any tool can follow.
A DESIGN.md drives a real UI. Generic next to branded.
Fable is the frontier design model most people never touch. This week you watch it work, up close, on shared projects.
A working, branded interface from one source of truth.
Your brand becomes a file — and AI tools obey it.
The taste bar, written down and enforced.
Work that clears the bar, revised through v3.
You write down what “good” means, then hold every draft to it.
The design system as code. Certification is a live demo link.
present builds the pitch from the same tokens. A shipped demo link and an on-brand pitch.
You launch a real product and a pitch that match — and you can do it again.
5 weeks, two live sessions a week, a small room of people building real things. Never a lecture hall.
Monday theory and Wednesday practice, 18:00 CET, two hours each, for 5 weeks from July 27.
Frameworks and live demos, then hands-on time on your own project. Never more than 30 minutes of straight lecture.
Small enough for real peer review and meaningful Show & Tell. You are seen, supported, and never anonymous. The group shares questions, blockers, and progress as the work gets real.
A private WhatsApp group, weekly homework, optional 1:1 office hours. Every session is recorded, so other time zones can keep up.
From the Claude Code Lab
These were built in the Claude Code Lab, the cohort this design course grows out of. Product people, founders, and a few who had never written a line of code all shipped working things in weeks.
Payroll that took a full day, now minutes. A prepress checker that has run for a month with no reprints caused by human error so far. A new division architected as lightweight ERP instead of buying enterprise software. Built by someone with no code background at all.
I still cannot quite believe it: my grown son says no one would believe his mother codes at 3 a.m. and sends him terminal commands.
Twenty years of running a print shop, no programming behind her. She pointed Claude at three years of orders and it found gaps in the compensation formulas that nobody on the team had ever noticed. Payroll that used to eat a full day of manual spreadsheets now resolves in minutes.
The prepress validation skill has run for a month with no human-error reprints so far; clients now receive an automatic PDF of any issues before a job goes to print. For a new division she had Claude architect a lightweight ERP, in-house and owned, rather than licensing enterprise software she did not need.
One command takes an image to animation to AI-composed music to a published video, end to end.
There are already 13 videos and I started a week ago. Three subscribers: two are me and my wife, one is a real person.
An automated Japanese Lo-Fi channel: music generated through the Suno API, cover images through OpenAI, and uploads handled by the YouTube Data API. He built it in about an hour.
Thirteen videos went up in the first week with a few hundred views between them. A weekend experiment more than a business, but the whole pipeline runs from a single click during the day.
A Real Browser skill that navigates a messy real-world store to place a water-delivery order.
It is a waterfall, a waterfall of information. You ran so far ahead that I just had to sprint to keep up.
A Real Browser skill that drives a messy, real-world storefront to place a water-delivery order. An early experiment in reaching past the screen into real-world tasks.
He came in to solve access and infrastructure problems for participants inside Russia, then learned by doing at motor level, which stuck far better than theory would have.
Forty application questions in a sheet, turned into an analytics site any hiring manager can read.
Claude Code is somehow permanently in my context window now. All day, whenever I hit a task, I ask: can I do this with Claude Code?
An internship scoring site built from a roughly forty-question application form. The answers feed a visual dashboard so any hiring manager, not only her, can compare candidates and decide quickly.
The whole thing came together in about an hour to an hour and a half.
An artist with no code shipped her workshop page and, with the same tools, structured the course program itself.
It was really cool, because we developed the program itself together with Claude.
A landing page for an art lab with its own visual language. Claude handled structure and layout while she kept full art direction, so the page looks like her work, not a template.
For someone whose circle is mostly non-technical, the lab opened up tools she had not been able to reach before.
An agent that crawls for speaker calls daily and tailors each application, plus a jury portal with per-expert logins, scoring, and email.
One of the jury members told me she now wants to start vibe-coding too. A side effect I did not plan for.
A Vercel-hosted evaluation portal for a startup pitch jury: per-expert PIN login, an evaluation guide, progress tracking, and filters. The data flows Typeform to Notion to Vercel to Resend, with no custom database to maintain. Built in about ten hours.
Alongside it, an Agent SDK crawler parses conferences every day for open speaker calls that match her profile and drafts a tailored application for each one.
Pulls search queries, runs negative-keyword and competitor analysis, then an analyst agent writes recommendations. Weekly reports run on parallel agents.
The main feeling I am left with is that I can do more. I just do not yet know what, or how.
An Agent SDK web interface for Google Ads: negative-keyword analysis, competitor research, and Excel analysis turned into plain-text summaries and generated slides. The recommendations come back ready for her to apply to the account.
Weekly reports run on parallel agents, one gathering news, one validating it, one writing the summary, so she gets a prioritised set of changes to review each week.
A brand book that spins out per-channel post cards in five minutes; a Chrome pipeline narrows outreach to people with 40+ mutual connections.
I threw it together in five minutes too, and it spread so far that almost 120 people followed me on LinkedIn.
A brand book that generates post cards for every channel in about five minutes; one post pulled almost 120 new followers in two days. A monthly LinkedIn export plus semantic search lets him find people matching arbitrary criteria.
A Chrome automation filters outreach down to connections with 40 or more mutuals, and a daily-planning assistant agent he calls Daniel runs his to-dos through Linear.
A film-production team fed a pile of research into Claude and got back a working site prototype for their new service, the kind clients and investors open and immediately respond to.
It one-shot a working prototype we now show to clients and investors, and they go: wow, what is this, how cool does it look.
His studio is building a project-management service for online cinemas. They loaded all their research and thinking into Claude in one pass, and it returned a working, good-looking site prototype, now their pitch surface for clients and investors.
Two passes, about fifty dollars in tokens, for something that a year earlier would have meant months of development and tens of thousands of dollars.
Everyone shipped. From first idea to a working demo in about six weeks. Not a webinar. A real link you can open.
Voices from the Lab
The right keywords, from which the right tooling follows — if you’re senior enough, you can adopt the rest yourself. I barely made the live sessions, and I don’t regret a single second of what I paid for.
George Y.Product design lead, 24 years in design
I recommended the course to my colleagues. What I really enjoyed is your personality and your wisdom. I never felt that vibe you get all over the internet from people selling AI courses — reselling basic stuff and chasing attention with clickbait.
Anton K.
One day theory, the next day we just had to build something. The entrance threshold for doing this on my own would have been very high — doing it as a group was definitely worth it. Expanding my productivity from 1 to 100 was amazing.
Anna K.
Before the lab: ChatGPT in a browser. After: Claude Code daily, my own Skill, automated tasks — saving 10+ hours a week.
Alexey
Because there was so much practice, everything stuck at the motor level — did it, tried it. That works far better than theory.
Vitaliy Z.
I’ve stopped being afraid of big tasks. And I have this feeling I don’t fully understand — not just what I’m capable of, but what we’re capable of together with Claude.
Olga K.
Solopreneur, AI product developer, and educator, with 25 years in IT building products and leading teams across startups and corporations. These days I build AI-first apps (Cenno, Cull, a genetic toolkit, and more) and teach the way I work: start from the goal, keep taste the whole way through.
Artist and educator with 10 years of experience in fine art, animation, and scenic painting. I work across drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation, and have taken part in exhibitions and collaborative art projects. In my workshops, I help participants train imagination, sharpen visual taste, and develop more personal, confident ways of generating ideas.
Carousels, covers, decks, graphics, automations — generated from the same design tokens by multi-agent systems you build in the lab, all unmistakably yours.
Copywriter + designer sub-agents render the slides.
16:9 thumbnails generated from the token palette.
Quote cards, announcements, drops — on-brand in one pass.
Swatches, type specimens & token exports from one DTCG file.
Presentation decks templated and filled by a layout agent.
Agent pipelines: trigger → design → review → ship.
You ship fast, and it looks like everything else. You polish details that move nothing. You are one more AI builder, indistinguishable from the next.
You start from the goal. The work looks deliberate, owned, unmistakably yours. You ship things people actually use, and you can do it again.
The difference is not more features. It is the judgment to make it feel intentional, and a to repeat it.
Not for you if you want a certificate more than a shipped product, or you would rather outsource taste than learn it.
Small cohort, 8 to 15, so peer review is real. Recordings make it workable across time zones.
A no-questions-asked full refund any time within the first 7 days.
Never used an agent? The Foundation pre-training gets you to the start line — live before the cohort, or as a recording with interactive exercises.
Cohort starts July 27. One small room, 8 to 15 builders.
Presentation for your boss ↗ — narrated, readable as an article or slides, with a ready-to-send approval letter. Need an invoice? Contact Gleb on WhatsApp +49 176 85278763.
Every color, size, font, and corner here comes from one DTCG token set, compiled by the design‑tokens skill we build in the course. Change one token, the whole page moves.
/* tokens.css, exported by the skill */ :root { --lead: #BC9AFA; --ink: #F4F6F8; --bg: #0C1116; --radius: 8px; --space-lg: 24px; }
The look is
downstream
of the goal
Stop being one more AI builder. Make work that is unmistakably yours.
