Design is the white-collar vocational skill schools skip: noticing problems, understanding people, iterating in the open. It pairs naturally with AI — the tutor critiques, generates alternatives, and plays the user, while the learner keeps the taste and the decisions. The rule of the season: everything gets tested on a real person. A beautiful thing nobody can use loses to an ugly thing that works.
This is a deep guide, not a worksheet packet. Each of the 12 weeks is a ready-to-run ~60-minute session, fully scripted: - A plain-language concept explanation and a concrete worked example so you see exactly what the week looks like before you lead it. - A minute-by-minute session plan — no prep, no guessing what to do next. - Copy/paste AI-tutor prompts at every step — the critique-and-play-the-user prompts, and everything else you'll say to the AI, already written for you. - A "show me" checkpoint so you can tell the week actually landed. - Common mistakes to watch for, plus practice to lock in the skill. - Four rescue prompts in the front matter for the frustrated, the bored, the stuck, and the rushing-to-finish. - A "Never used an AI chat assistant? Start here" section that takes a complete beginner from zero to ready in about five minutes — no prior AI experience needed, and a free AI assistant is enough.
Parents and teachers guiding a learner aged roughly 10–17 who likes making things — art, crafts, games, or apps. Medium-agnostic and no design background needed on your part; the tutor critiques, you keep the learner in the driver's seat. You lead one ~60-minute session each week, fully scripted — every step timed and every AI prompt written for you, so no expertise or prior AI experience is needed.
A chatbot will spit out a "finished" design and rob the learner of the actual skill — noticing, testing, iterating. This pack keeps the learner's taste in charge and uses the AI as critic and stand-in user, with a 12-week arc that ends in a real deliverable and a portfolio crit. Process over output, which is the whole point of design.
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