Design courses

Browse public Design courses with structured lessons, visuals, and practice on Wondering.

• Evaluating LLMs for Product Decisions

  Master the mechanics of transformers to confidently assess AI capabilities, ensuring your design choices are backed by a technical understanding of large language model performance and limitations. * **Transformer architecture fundamentals** to grasp model logic and constraints * **Performance benchmarking** using qualitative and quantitative evaluation metrics * **Context window trade-offs** for cost and latency optimization * **Tool selection frameworks** tailored for specific product design goals

• Inventing on Principle

  Master the art of creating immediate-feedback systems to transform static interfaces into dynamic, intuitive tools that empower users through real-time interaction and experimental design principles. * **Immediate feedback loops** for real-time interface manipulation * **Direct manipulation** of data through dynamic visual systems * **Dynamic visualization** techniques beyond static charts and graphs * **Principle-led creation** to guide innovative product design decisions

• Can I trust what it heard, saw, or generated?

  Beyond text: voice, images, video. Name the distinct failure mode of each non-text modality and the check that catches it.

• The AI Opportunity Audit

  A method for product designers who have an AI feature on the roadmap and no evidence about whether it should exist: decompose the workflow, probe model capability with real tasks instead of demos, diagnose which layer actually failed, and defend a build, constrain, or reject decision.

• Design for How People Learn

  Julie Dirksen translates research on goals, memory, attention, knowledge, skills, habits, motivation, environment, transfer, visuals, social learning, and evaluation into practical choices for learning designers.

• Collison on Craft and Ambition

  Patrick Collison's interviews and progress-studies writing argue that durable software, careful interfaces, institutional experimentation, and better personal learning systems can become strategic advantages for ambitious founders.

• Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

  Nir Eyal explains the Hook Model—Trigger, Action, Variable Reward, and Investment—and how product teams can use it to encourage repeated behavior while considering the ethics of habit formation.

• Practical Video Color Grading

  Learn a practical color grading workflow for video: read the image, correct technical problems, shape a deliberate look, and deliver consistent shots. This course is for motivated creators who want usable grading judgment rather than tool trivia.