Artificial Intelligence & Design Classroom Resources

INTRODUCING AI TO THE DESIGN CLASSROOM

Helen Armstrong, Big Data, Big Design: Why Designers Should Care about Artificial Intelligence (Princeton Architectural Press: 2021)
Ethan Mollick: Co-Intelligence (2024) and Co-Existence (2026)
Great, friendly introduction to Artificial Intelligence. Useful for engaging students of all levels: The People’s Guide to A.I. (Zine/Workbook. Available for purchase or free download)
A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning by Tony Chu and Stephanie Yee (view”full story”)
John Maeda’s Design in Tech Report 2023 and 2024 and 2025
AI with John Oliver
“How AI Chatbots like ChatGPT or Bard work” (Guardian article)
After Automation: AI’s Biggest Problem will be Design by Karri Saarinen
John Maeda’s short videos on A.I. (The videos in the series begin with Design and Artificial Intelligence:)
AI for Product Design (Brian Greenbaum’s robust list)
The Rise and Reckoning of AI 2026 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate

PODCASTS

The AI Daily Brief
In Machines We Trust, a podcast about the automation of everything (older but still useful)
Practical A.I., making artificial intelligence practical, productive, and accessible to everyone.
Flash Forward, a podcast about possible and not so possible futures (older but still useful)
Tech Won’t Save Us with Paris Marx

AI NEWSLETTERS

DATA ETHICS & RESPONSIBLE AI

Themes: Data Collection, Resource Use, Right to Repair, Environmental Impact, Trust, Explainable AI

Mimi Onuoha, How We Became Machine Readable
Mimi Onuoha’s work
Kate Crawford, Mapping Empires (her related work: Calculating Empires)
Rumman Chowdhury, Your Right to Repair AI Systems
Sarah Gold’s studio IF. Pay particular attention to design patterns related to trust
Sarah Gold, Just Enough Trust, Useful Beats Transparent & Consent is A Relationship (short articles on medium. Can access from IF website, as well)
Jer Thorp, “By Canoe and Caravan” from Living in Data
Xu, Jiannan and Li, Gujie and Jiang, Jane, AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights (August 29, 2025). Available at or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5417394
Your Phone Tracks you More than You Think (interactive cell phone tracking map from 2019)
Sarah Gold, “Trust and Digital Rights in Learned Systems,” PAIR UX Symposium 2018
“You Are Now Remotely Controlled” by Zuboff, New York Times. (Surveillance Capitalism)
Glenn Greenwald: Why Privacy Matters
Digital Dialogues: Seeing like a machine: The hidden costs of Artificial Intelligence
Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen “Excavating AI”. See also Anatomy of an AI System
Mimi Onuoha, Research Commons Guest Lecture
Rumman Chowdhury, Moral Outsourcing and Can we fix AI before it’s too late?
Gender Shades Project, research led by Joy Buolamwini & Timnit Gebru
The Great Hack documentary on Netflix, 2019, (trailer here)
New York Times Privacy Project (older but still interesting)
Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Silas Munro, W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America
Google PAIR led by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
AI Now Institute
Cathy O’Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction, (Broadway: 2017)
Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, Data Feminism, (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2020).
Black in AI
Data for Black Lives, Founded by Yeshimabeit Milner
Noble, Safiya Umoja. Algorithms of oppression: How search engines reinforce racism. NYU Press, 2018
designjustice.org

HUMAN/MACHINE RELATIONSHIPS

Themes: Robots, Animals, Companions, Conversation, Social connection, Intimacy, Human-computer Integrationrolled interface, human-computer integration

Kate Darling, The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about our Future with Robots, 2021.
Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation , 2015, and Artificial Intimacy, 2026.
MIT’s Fluid Interfaces Group led by Pattie Maes.
Harrison, S. (2026, August 17). “What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies?” MIT Technology Review. (online version)
Florian Mueller, Nathan Semertzidis, Josh Andres, Joe Marshall, Steve Benford, Xiang Li, Louise Matjeka, and Yash Mehta. 2023. “Toward Understanding the Design of Intertwined Human–Computer Integrations.” ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 30, 5, Article 73 (October 2023),
Amelia Wattenberger: Our interfaces have lost their senses
In Machines We Trust Podcast: Seeing Double: AI Births Digital Humans
Neuralink
Betti Marenko & Philip van Allen (2016) “Animistic design: how to reimagine digital interaction between the human and the nonhuman,” Digital Creativity, 27:1, 52-70, 2016.
Luke Wroblewski: AI Orchestration and UI
In Machines We Trust podcast, “What’s Behind a Smile?” and “AI Reads Human Emotions. Should it?”
Rana el Kaliouby Humanizing Artificial Intelligence (2019)
Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, (New York: Random House, 2019).

THE NEW AI DESIGN WORKFLOW

Themes: Agentic Workflow, Creativity, Design Process, AI Aesthetics, Labor, Augmentation

Jenny Wen, design lead for Claude, The Design Process is Dead
Luke Wroblewski, The New Designer/Developer Collaboration
Stephan Wensveen, “Designing Aesthetics of Intelligence,” International Journal of Design (20) 6: 2026.
Karri Saarinen: Design is More than Code
Reflection in Action with Jodi Forlizzi, 2026
“The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence,” Erik Brynjolfsson Stanford Digital Economy Lab
Ethan Mullick, Co-Intelligence: Chapter 9: “AI As Our Future”
Samangi Wadinambiarachchi, Jenny Waycott, Yvonne Rogers, and Greg Wadley, “Imagining Design Workflows in Agentic AI Futures,” in Proceedings of the 37th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OZCHI ’25) (New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2025), https://doi.org/10.1145/3764687.3764719.
David Autor: Does automation replace experts or augment expertise?
Lee, Seo-young, Matthew Law, and Guy Hoffman. 2024. “When and How to Use AI in the Design Process? Implications for Human-AI Design Collaboration.” International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction 41 (2): 1569–1584. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2024.2353451.
Fang, Cong, Yujie Zhu, Le Fang, Yonghao Long, Huan Lin, Yangfan Cong, and Stephen Jia Wang. 2025. “Generative AI-Enhanced Human-AI Collaborative Conceptual Design: A Systematic Literature Review.” Design Studies 97: 101300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2025.101300.

BEYOND HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN

Themes: Human-centered Design, Anthropocentrism, Posthumanism, More-than-human Design, Bio-centered Design

What does Post-Human Design Actually Mean?, Eye on Design, 2019 (medium)
Carl DiSalvo and Jonathan Lukens, “Nonathropocentrism and the Nonhuman in Design.” From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen, (Cambridge: MIT, 2018).
Anastasiia Raina: From Human-Centered To Bio-Centered Design (29 mins)
Forlano, Laura. 2017. ” Posthumanism and Design.” She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation 3 (1): 16–29.
Anab Jain of Superflux: More Than Human-Centered Design
Colomina, Beatriz, and Mark Wigley. 2016. Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design. Zurich: Lars Müller Publishers.
Anab Jain: Rewilding our Imaginations
Ron Wakkary: Design Informatics Webinar 2021
Elisa Giaccardi, Johan Redström & Iohanna Nicenboim (2025) The making(s) of more-than-human design: introduction to the special issue on more-than-human design and HCI, Human–Computer Interaction, 40:1-4, 1-16,
Ron Wakkary: Things We Could Design: For More Than Human-Centered Worlds
Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees
Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and The Deep Origins of Consciousness
Other big names in posthumanism: Anne Galloway, Donna Harroway, Sarah Whatmore, Dorian Sagan, Alex Taylor

AI FILMS/SERIES

Frontline: In the Age of AI (documentary on PBS) (2019)
iHuman film (view on Vimeo, etc.) (2021)
The Great Hack (on Netflix) (2019)

The Social Dilemma (on Netflix) (2020)
Sunny series (on Apple TV)
Companion movie (Hulu, Disney +)
Not a film but a great source of lectures on MLUX: ML and UX Meetup Group

General Design Inspiration

INTERACTIVE DESIGN

DATA VIS

TYPOGRAPHY

DESIGN & TECH NEWS

DESIGN PUBLICATIONS

INTERESTING STUDIOS

Tools

Language GUI: A UI Kit for LLMs
Shape of AI
AI Generative Art Tools (older list)
Prompt Engineering Resources (shared by Derek Lomas)
ElevenLabs (voice generator)
Cursor (design friendly AI coding agent)
Claude Design