ARTGR 4840 / 5840 • Iowa State University 8-week summer • Online asynchronous + flexible meetings
AI-Aided Product Design: From User Flow to Deployed Web App

Design It. Prompt It. Deploy It.

This course is about turning UI/UX students into full-stack creators. You will move from user flows and Figma systems to real, deployed, data-driven web applications using AI-assisted workflows with tools like Figma Make and Cursor.

No traditional computer science degree required.

What This Course Is About

AI is reshaping UI/UX design. In this studio course, you will learn the intersection of advanced Figma systems, prompt engineering, and AI-assisted development so you can translate design intent into working code. The course is open to all majors and is ideal for students interested in design, technology, entrepreneurship, and AI-enabled creative workflows.

Design Systems Mastery

Use Auto Layout, Variables, reusable components, and design tokens to build scalable, developer-ready UI systems.

AI + Prompt Engineering

Learn how LLMs work, write effective prompts, and design interfaces that handle uncertainty, latency, and trust.

Build and Deploy

Bridge design and development with AI-aided tools to launch functional products on live hosting platforms.

What You Will Create

You will complete one comprehensive 7-week project and six fast AI-driven mini projects. Every student leaves with production-ready artifacts and real web outcomes that can be shown in portfolios, interviews, and internships.

Capstone Product

  • Topic identification, user-flow mapping, and interaction logic.
  • Low-fidelity and high-fidelity interface design.
  • Implementation and deployment to a public URL.

Six Mini Projects

  • Multi-page web app generation from prototype input.
  • UI cloning from screenshots with descriptive prompting.
  • Component-based generation, layout creation, and design-library application.

Why You Must Take This Course

Because the role is changing now

The barrier between imagining and shipping a product is collapsing. This class prepares you for the next definition of UX practice.

Because portfolio proof beats promises

You finish with deployable projects that demonstrate both design thinking and technical execution, not only visual comps.

Because it gives you strategic advantage

You gain fluency across design, prompt logic, and implementation workflows that many candidates still lack.

8-Week Learning Journey

Weeks 1-2

AI-era designer mindset, prompt engineering, project topic selection, and user flow creation.

Weeks 3-4

Real-world UI logic, low-fidelity design, component-based interfaces, and data-binding thinking.

Weeks 5-6

Auto Layout for responsive structure and design-system building for consistent AI control.

Weeks 7-8

Figma Make implementation, deployment, project documentation, and web hosting of final work.

Tools You Will Use

Figma Design Figma Make Cursor (AI programming) Supabase Cloudflare / Netlify / GitHub Pages

Ready to build your first deployed AI-aided product?

ARTGR 4840/5840 is designed to get you from concept to launch in one summer session. Reach out to discuss fit, enrollment, and project direction.

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