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✨ New course: Prototyping with AI ✨ AI can help us move faster than ever before. But speed alone isn’t the goal. The real opportunity is to balance AI’s power with the human skills that make creative work meaningful: curiosity, experimentation, and reflection. In our newest course, Prototyping with AI, interaction designer Takashi Wickes teaches how to bring AI into your prototyping process intentionally—as a tool for exploration, not automation. You’ll learn to: ✔️ Use AI tools to expand creative possibilities while focusing on meaningful feedback ✔️ Apply flexible mindsets that work with any tool or platform ✔️ Build friction into your AI workflows to create space for critical thinking and human interaction ✔️ Develop a strong point of view on how AI can amplify your creativity The online course is available now on demand. Learn more and enroll: https://bit.ly/42V6kz9

Futuring as a Strategy Tool IDEO's approach to futures thinking isn’t about dreaming up dystopian sci-fi worlds. It’s applied, near-term and a valuable complement to strategic work. Join us for a conversation with Jennifer Lo, Senior Director of Design Futures at IDEO and instructor of IDEO U's new course, Applied Futures Thinking. What we’ll cover: ✔️ What futures thinking adds to strategy work, and what that looks like in practice ✔️Real, low-lift ways to build the skill of futures thinking, and why it matters for leaders ✔️How to use futuring to name hard business problems out loud, instead of avoiding them ✔️Examples from healthcare: spotting the signals, trends, and drivers inside a complex, fast-changing industry

If your planning horizon is next quarter, you're already playing catch-up. Learn how IDEO uses futures thinking to make stronger strategy calls today. Free LinkedIn Live, Wed Oct 7, 3 PM ET.

IDEO's Futurist-in-Residence Jennifer Lo on futuring as a practical strategy tool, not a crystal ball. Join us live Wed Oct 7, 3 PM ET.

I'm not here to tell you to use AI. Whether it belongs in your work is your call, and I'd certainly understand if you were hesitant. But if you're curious and don't know where to start, this workshop was how I made time to build my first skill and my first agent. What held me back before that was figuring out where in my workflow AI actually belonged. I learned it through trial and error, mostly by noticing when a task took so many prompts I'd have been faster doing it myself. If that's the part you're stuck on, IDEO U is running a new 3-hour workshop with ExperiencePoint called Working Better with AI. You'll look at your own workflow, work out where AI could be useful, and leave with a skill and an agent you've built. Starting something new can feel daunting. This class took the edge off. Have a question you're worried will sound dumb to the agentic whiz kid sitting next to you? Ask us. We won't judge. We're all about asking questions. Three hours, and then you decide whether any of it is for you. "Yes" or "Not really" are both perfectly good answers :) Learn more and sign up here: https://lnkd.in/dG5XTErm

Strategy isn't a spreadsheet; it's a creative act. Learn the repeatable process used by world-class leaders to unite the analytical and creative. Discover how to choose what to do, and what not to do.