Skim Studio Courses · Live, small group
Building
with AI
A hands-on course for professionals who don’t code.
Bring a real problem from your work. Over four live sessions, you’ll go from first setup to a working tool your team can use, and learn how to keep building after the course ends.
- Format
- 4 live sessions, weekly
- Instruction
- 6 hours (4 × 90 min)
- Group size
- 2–6 people
- Where
- Brooklyn or online
- Tuition
- $595 per person
- Completion
- Certificate from Skim Studio
Taught with
Notion Blackbird Coursera Automattic sponsor01Syllabus
Four sessions, one real project.
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01
The map, and your first live app
What each kind of AI tool is for: chat assistants, coding agents, and app builders. Set up Claude Code, build a small app, and put it on the internet within the first hour.
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From work problem to buildable plan
How an app actually works (screens, data, logic). Turn a task from your job into a small version you can finish, and write the brief the AI builds from.
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Build it, then make it good
Build the first version of your project. Describe what you want precisely, change things without breaking them, check the AI’s work, and give it a design worth showing.
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Real data, real users
Connect a database or outside service, deploy for coworkers, and plan how to maintain it. Each participant demos a working project.
- Spot tasks and workflows at work where AI can save time or do something new
- Choose the right AI tool for a job, and know its limits
- Build and deploy a working application without prior programming experience
- Plan, iterate on, and evaluate AI-generated work with a clear method
- Maintain and extend a small internal tool after the course
- Explain how the tool works to teammates and stakeholders
Who it’s for
Designers, product managers, researchers, operators, and other knowledge workers.
Prerequisites
None. No programming experience. A laptop and a Claude Pro plan ($20/month).
To complete
Attend all four sessions and demo a working project in session four.
02Participants
What people built.
A full multi-page app in 2.5 hours
“I started from knowing nothing at all about coding or Claude Code and by the end of the 2.5 hours was able to build a full app with multiple pages and resources!”
A small-claims court guide for Ontario residents
“I haven’t been able to stop making and daydreaming tools I can now build with AI.”
Past the terminal, and building
“Getting started with terminal was daunting so I never got started. Your setup walkthrough was so helpful… a large hurdle that you helped make feel like a breeze.”
From intimidated to a working prototype
“I was resistant to trying AI tools and was so intimidated by them… we spent a lot of time live demoing together which helped build confidence. Really fun workshop and left with a bunch of ideas to build (and my own working prototype).”
03Instructor
Melody Kim
Melody is a product designer, educator, and the founder of Skim Studio, a design studio in Brooklyn. She started her career designing learning products at Coursera, co-founded ShopWith in Y Combinator’s Summer 2018 batch, and later led design as Head of Design at Betteromics.
Since January 2026 she has taught hands-on AI workshops for professionals and business owners, in public courses and in programs with Notion. Her teaching is less about learning another tool and more about building something useful and understanding why it works.
Background
- Founder & educatorSkim Studio
- Head of DesignBetteromics
- Co-founderShopWith, YC S18
- Product DesignerCoursera
04For employers
Professional development & reimbursement
Building with AI develops practical AI and software skills for working professionals in design, research, product, operations, and other knowledge work. Many employers cover courses like this through a learning or professional development budget.
- Provider
- Skim Studio, Brooklyn, New York
- Instructor
- Melody Kim
- Instructional hours
- 6 hours, across 4 live sessions
- Tuition
- $595 per person
- Competencies
- AI literacy, workflow analysis, AI-assisted software development, prototyping, evaluating AI-generated output
- Documentation provided
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- Itemized invoice and receipt
- Syllabus with learning objectives and hours
- Attendance record and certificate of completion
Enrolling now
Start with the thing you’d build if you could.
Cohorts are scheduled with each group. Email with your role and what you want to build, and we’ll find a start date. Full refund up to 7 days before the first session.