Lecture
This is the Develop week, where a design becomes something that runs. We start in ChatGPT and Codex: the three places you can get code with one account, what a coding agent does to a folder of files, and how to set up Codex inside VS Code. We’ll do the setup together. Then we build four kinds of things live. First, a working website for SPOKE from a screenshot and a description. Second, a side-scrolling bike game you can play in a browser. Third, a small design tool that makes patterns. Last, I’ll show the software I built with Claude and a security camera to track speeding cars on my road. Along the way you’ll learn to read a change before you keep it and to spot what generated code usually gets wrong. We finish with four questions to answer before you put anything you built with AI online.
Lecture Slides
Homework
You have two separate assignments this week. Both are due Monday, November 23, before class, and each one has its own page in Notion.
Assignment 1: Build Something That Runs
Build one working thing with ChatGPT or Codex. It can be a website or app, a game, a design tool or plugin, or software for yourself.
- Before you prompt, write down who it’s for, what people can do with it, what comes out, and how you’ll know it works.
- Write down what broke and how you fixed it.
- Add your prompts, word for word, with the tools and models you used.
- Write a 150–300 word reflection: did you learn anything, or did you just get output? How would you know the difference?
Template: Week 10 Homework
Assignment 2: Final Project Brief
Post your final project brief for approval. I’ll reply to each one in a comment.
- Pick one territory: design practice, storytelling, experimental, or research.
- Say your position on AI in one sentence: embrace, challenge, misuse or reject.
- Name the body of work and what you need to make it.
- Say where AI comes in, and where you’ll keep it out.
Template: Final Project Brief
Full assignment: Final — Designing With (or Against) AI