TRAINING 1 - BOOST YOUR CREATIVITY
For Professional Individuals or Teams
Six Learning Sessions to Supercharge Your Creativity with AI
In this series, you book six online live sessions (1.5 hour each), one per week. Ulrike Kerber and associates facilitate the teachings. If you miss a session, recordings and materials will be available. We introduce you to the most powerful AI tools and ways how to work with them.
New workflows can integrate digital and AI tools, forging a partnership between human designers and AI. If you are already familiar with generative AI, we can go a bit deeper and challenge your creative intelligence 😅.
With this training, your ideation, and productivity will go through the roof!
This workshop is perfect for content creators, designers, educators, storytellers, marketers, entrepreneurs and anyone looking to elevate their AI knowledge and experience.
TRAINING 2 - CUSTOMIZED FOR YOUR TEAM
Get the most of AI for your business
In this series, you will have 6 online customized online live sessions led by Viva Design (per request on location). Typically these are facilitated once/week over the course of six weeks. You can use the topics from Training 1 or from these examples, or discuss your topics with us.
Let us know how we can help you get the most out of this
course by customizing it to your needs!
Workshop Examples:
Workshop 1
Intro to Ideation with AI Tools. An overview of Tools, technologies and workflows.
Workshop 2
Logo Design and Branding.
Using AI tools to create complete branding packages in the time it needs to eat a sandwich
Workshop 3
Typography and Logo Design.
It has been notoriously hard to create type with AI Tools, but there are tricks to achieve results. How can we max out AI to create type, logos, find font pairings for websites?
Workshop 4
Creating Talking Head Videos.
Let's create and animate an avatar, a portrait, and let it speak in the voice of a celebrity, AI voice, or your own; see the student sample below.
Workshop 5
Prompting fashion iconic images.
Mona Lisa on Project Runway, designing fashion and seamless patterns
Workshop 6
Creating Manga, Cartoon, and Illustrations styles
TRAINING 3 - COMPANY RETREAT
Immerse yourself ! Beautiful Creativity Training for your team - analog, digital and AI
Active, fun and engaging workshops along with our tailored trainings, are perfect for company-specific retreats and events. If you're interested in exploring how we can bring creativity, fun and innovation to your team in a special, relaxed environment, get in touch.
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Team Building: Strengthen relationships and foster trust among team members through collaborative activities.
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Creative Thinking: Provide a change of scenery to inspire fresh ideas and innovative solutions.
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Strategic Planning: Allow for focused time away from daily distractions to develop long-term goals and strategies.
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Employee Morale: Boost motivation and job satisfaction by showing appreciation and investing in team development.
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Skill Development: Offer workshops and training sessions to enhance professional skills and knowledge.
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Problem Solving: Address and resolve ongoing challenges in a relaxed, open environment.
This Retreat is perfect for creative departments, tech companies, start-ups, ad and marketing agencies, consulting firms, media and entertainment companies, and educational institutions.
TRAINING 4 - DESIGN SPRINT
A ONE DAY IMMERSION FOR YOUR TEAM
TRAINING 4: ONE DAY DESIGN SPRINT
A one-day design sprint is a condensed, highly-focused workshop where a team collaboratively tackles a design challenge from start to finish in a single day. It's derived from the five-day design sprint method developed by Google Ventures, but adapted to fit into a much shorter timeframe with the augmentation of AI.
Here’s how it typically works and how it can be facilitated in a One-Day-Design Sprint
1. Empathize with the Target Customer
Creating an ideal customer profile with AI.
2. Define the Problem (1 hour)
Goal: Articulate the problem or challenge. Define Problem statements.
User personas, journey maps, and value propositions.
3.A - Prototyping
Sketch and Write Solutions (1 hour) with AI
Goal: Generate a wide range of ideas.
Activities: Individual sketching (Crazy 8s: sketching 8 ideas in 8 minutes)
Sharing and discussing sketches with the group
Decide on the Best Solution (1 hour)
Goal: Select the most promising ideas.
Discuss and combine ideas to form a coherent solution (SCAMPER exercise)
3.B - Prototyping
Storyboarding the chosen solution
Prototype (2-3 hours)
Goal: Build a tangible prototype.
Activities: Creating a low-fidelity prototype using tools like paper, digital wireframes, or simple mockups
Assign roles (e.g., prototype creator, asset gatherer)
Test (1-2 hours)
Goal: Validate the prototype with real users.
Activities: Conducting quick user testing sessions, Gathering feedback and observations,
4. Discussing insights and potential next steps
Present the ideas and prototypes
Reflect on the process and outcomes.
Celebrate!
This workshop is perfect for creative departments, agencies, diverse teams with skills from different areas: designers, educators, storytellers, marketers, entrepreneurs and anyone looking to elevate their AI knowledge and experience.
About Ulrike Kerber
Ulrike Kerber is the Principal and Design Lead at Viva Design Inc. She provides brand design, animations, and content creation to global clients such as Disney, BBC, TEDx, and Viacom. She is known for her creativity and innovation.
She holds an MA in Communication Design and an MA in Digital Management from Hyper Island. Her research explores the intersection of creativity and Artificial Intelligence. She conducts workshops in Design Thinking, Speculative Design, Motion Design, and experimental storytelling. Her research is published in her latest book "The Best AI Tools for Designers", is available here.
AI Workshop Example at Hyper Island: