DIVE MASTER: Advancing Real-World Impact through Design·AI
About This Course
From ideation to action, the DIVE MASTER course is a comprehensive yet rigorous approach to the Design Innovation and Artificial Intelligence (DAI) framework, equipping participants with the skills to design, test, and validate project solutions using a suite of AI platforms as a Tool or Teammate to increase team performance throughout the design process.
Through human–AI collaboration, participants will engage in a structured process to:
• Identify and understand design opportunities and user needs in close collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Interpret and reframe user needs into actionable insights, activities, and abstract representations that foster innovation through DAI.
• Ideate and conceptualise solutions grounded in genuine user needs and opportunities.
• Develop and refine ideas through hands on prototyping and model-making, testing concepts with relevant stakeholders for validation and feedback.
• Leverage the power of AI as a tool or teammate in various design activities
During this hands-on course, participants will work collaboratively in teams to conduct iterative, user-centred design, leveraging AI to enhance creativity, analytical capability, and execution speed through a facilitated design sprint led by professional Design Innovators.
Designed for working professionals, the course emphasises collaboration and practical problem-solving around real-world challenges faced by companies, organisations, industries, communities, and nations—delivering implementable and actionable outcomes that bridge innovation with tangible application.
What You'll Learn
• Apply structured Design Innovation and AI (DAI) methods to gather unbiased insights from users through fieldwork, observation, and interviews, and organise these findings for further AI-supported analysis and synthesis.
• Use AI tools to analyse and interpret data, uncovering patterns, trends, and insights that inform better design decisions.
• Translate and reframe user needs into clear and actionable design challenges that guide the development of innovative ideas and solutions.
• Employ human–AI ideation techniques to generate and refine creative concepts, using AI as a teammate to enhance imagination and problem-solving.
• Develop and prototype tangible representations of products, services, or systems using AI-powered tools at appropriate levels of fidelity.
• Conduct structured testing and validation sessions with users and stakeholders to assess ideas, gather feedback, and strengthen the final solution.
• Create a practical implementation plan outlining the steps, resources, and strategies required to move validated solutions towards real-world production or rollout.
Programme Structure: Participants will undergo seven days of immersive training, combining lectures and hands-on project work. On the eighth day, the class will reconvene for a presentation and validation session, where participants will showcase and test their solutions as part of the course assessment.
Entry Requirements
Have basic knowledge in design innovation and artificial intelligence and familiar with digital tools and technologies.