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Certificate in AI-Powered Product Design and Innovation

Certificate in AI-Powered Product Design and Innovation

Application closes 3rd Nov 2026

Why should you join this certificate course?

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    End-to-End AI-Powered Product Design Journey

    Work across research, ideation, prototyping, visualisation, and testing, using AI tools and frameworks throughout the design process.

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    Human-Centred Design Thinking and AI Value Judgement

    Develop the ability to understand real user needs, frame design challenges, assess where AI adds value, and judge what to build versus what not to build.

Certificate Outcomes

Elevate your career in product design

Become an AI-powered product design expert

  • Build AI literacy and master prompt engineering to accelerate product design workflows.

  • Lead end-to-end product design using AI tools for research, ideation, prototyping, and testing.

  • Translate user research into validated product concepts and deliver real-world solutions.

  • Apply design thinking and AI to solve complex problems and drive innovation in your organisation.

Earn a Certificate of Completion from IIT Bombay

  • #2 in India

    #2 in India

    QS World University Rankings, 2026

  • #28 Globally

    #28 Globally

    QS Rankings in Engineering & Technology, 2025

  • #3

    #3

    NIRF India Rankings 2025

Certificate Highlights

Why choose this certificate?

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    Live Interactive Sessions by IDC Faculty

    Learn through weekly live interactive sessions with faculty from IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay.

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    Experience Campus Life at IDC, IIT Bombay

    Three days of optional campus immersion with hands-on studio sessions, industry speakers, peer learning, and direct faculty interaction.

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    Design Sprints to Sharpen Your Thinking

    Tackle real, time-boxed design challenges through rapid iteration, structured critique, and applied AI tools.

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    Applied Capstone Project

    Apply your learning to a real-world business challenge, guided by faculty, with a dedicated month to develop and complete your Capstone Project.

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    AI Literacy and Design Thinking Toolkit

    Build capabilities across prompt design, no-code web development, AI-assisted prototyping, user research, ideation, product visualisation, and AI-powered design workflows.

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    Dedicated Programme Support

    Receive personalised support from a dedicated Programme Manager throughout the learning journey.

Skills you will learn

AI Literacy and Prompt Engineering

No-Code Web Development and AI-Assisted Prototyping

Human-Centred Design Research (Classic and AI-Assisted)

Problem Framing and Design Brief Development

Concept Generation

Ideation and Creative Problem-Solving

Design Analysis

Usability Testing and Iterative Design

Design Sprints and Rapid Iteration

AI-Powered Lead Magnet Design

Agentic AI for Marketing Workflows

Product Visualisation and AI-Powered Rendering

AI Literacy and Prompt Engineering

No-Code Web Development and AI-Assisted Prototyping

Human-Centred Design Research (Classic and AI-Assisted)

Problem Framing and Design Brief Development

Concept Generation

Ideation and Creative Problem-Solving

Design Analysis

Usability Testing and Iterative Design

Design Sprints and Rapid Iteration

AI-Powered Lead Magnet Design

Agentic AI for Marketing Workflows

Product Visualisation and AI-Powered Rendering

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  • Overview
  • Learning Path
  • Curriculum
  • Tools
  • Faculty
  • Mentors
  • Fees

Who is the certificate for?

The certificate program has been crafted for users with the following objectives.

  • Product managers and leaders

    Professionals aiming to lead AI product design, turn user needs into strong decisions, and leverage AI to accelerate research, ideation, and testing.

  • Product design professionals

    UX, UI, and product designers aiming to master AI tools, refine their craft for the AI era, and lead design decisions from research to launch.

  • Educators and trainers

    Professionals aiming to apply design thinking and AI-powered user research to create impactful learning experiences that achieve learning objectives.

  • Entrepreneurs and startup leaders

    Ideal for founders shaping early products who need a structured, hands-on framework to refine design and validate opportunities before scaling.

What your campus immersion includes

  • Faculty interaction

    Intensive, in-person design critique and mentorship from IIT Bombay faculty

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  • Peer collaboration

    Structured studio sessions with a cohort of design and product professionals

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  • Industry expert sessions

    Direct engagement with senior practitioners at the forefront of AI and product design

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  • Certificate

    A participation certificate for the three-day Immersion Programme will be issued by the Course Coordinator

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What is the curriculum?

Designed by IIT Bombay faculty and industry experts, the curriculum equips learners with AI-powered product design, user research, prototyping, and innovation skills. Taught through live sessions, hands-on sprints, and optional campus immersion, it prepares you to lead end-to-end product design using the latest AI tools and frameworks.

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    Modules

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    Months

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    Design sprints

  • 1

    Capstone project

Module 1: Entering the Age of AI — Fundamentals

Every design decision in this programme rests on a working grasp of artificial intelligence — its underlying mechanics, its capabilities, and its limitations. This module builds that foundation.

Topics Covered

What AI is, how it evolved, and how it learns and operates, including the technologies that support it

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How AI creates value across industries, and how to measure its real-world impact

Topics Covered

Large language models and their applications in practice

Module 2: Prompt, Prompt Design and Prompt Frameworks

With a working understanding of how AI thinks and operates, the next step is learning to direct it with precision. This module develops the structured prompting techniques that will serve as your primary interface with AI across every stage of the design process.

Topics Covered

The anatomy of a prompt and how it shapes AI output

Topics Covered

Conditioning prompts with emotional and contextual components

Topics Covered

Prompt frameworks and when to use each one

Module 3: No-Code Web Development

Prompting capability is most powerful when it produces something real. This module puts it to immediate, tangible use — applying AI-assisted development techniques to build functional web products without writing a single line of code.

Topics Covered

Foundations of web design and the types of websites you can build

Topics Covered

Prompt design specifically for web creation

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AI-assisted website development, end to end

Module 4: AI Agents and Intelligent Automation Fundamentals

Beyond directing individual tools, AI systems can be configured to operate autonomously across complex workflows. This module introduces multi-agent architectures and the no-code platforms that make intelligent automation accessible to designers and product leaders.

Topics Covered

What AI agents are, how they work, and the types of multi-agent systems in use today

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No-code platforms for building and deploying AI agents

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Real business applications of AI automation, demonstrated hands-on

Module 5: Introduction to the Design Process and Innovation

With AI fluency established, this module introduces the design frameworks that will structure everything that follows — Design Thinking and the Double Diamond — ensuring that capability is always in service of rigorous, human-centred problem solving.

Topics Covered

Design thinking: Empathise, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test — and how the Double Diamond framework applies it

Topics Covered

Convergent and divergent thinking, and systems thinking as a design lens

Topics Covered

The history and relevance of industrial design and the design process

Module 6: AI-Assisted Design Brief Development

With design thinking as your framework, the next discipline is problem definition. This module develops the analytical and AI-assisted methods needed to frame a design challenge with the clarity and precision that strong outcomes demand.

Topics Covered

Problem identification and what makes a strong design brief

Topics Covered

Frameworks like 5W1H for defining and scoping the design challenge

Topics Covered

Developing and refining your design brief using AI tools

Module 7: AI-Powered Design Research

A well-framed brief demands equally well-grounded research. This module equips learners with qualitative and quantitative research methodologies — ethnographic, and market-based — augmented throughout with AI-assisted tools to accelerate and deepen user understanding.

Topics Covered

Primary and secondary research methods - qualitative and quantitative, including ethnographic research and user studies

Topics Covered

Market research and competitor analysis

Topics Covered

AI-assisted research methods and user research planning

Module 8: AI-Enabled Creative Problem-Solving Techniques

With validated research in hand, the challenge shifts to transformation — converting raw user insight into well-formed design directions. This module introduces structured ideation frameworks including lateral thinking, SCAMPER, and Six Thinking Hats, with AI applied to accelerate and expand the creative process.

Topics Covered

Creative and critical thinking — linear and lateral approaches to problem-solving

Topics Covered

SCAMPER and Six Thinking Hats as frameworks for structured ideation

Topics Covered

AI-assisted brainstorming and mind mapping techniques

Module 9: AI-Assisted User Insights and Concept Development

Building on the research and ideation methods established so far, this module moves from divergent thinking to design output — translating user data into personas, empathy maps, and product concepts through a rigorous, AI-assisted concept development process.

Topics Covered

Building user personas, empathy maps, and interaction plans

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Conducting and documenting user interviews, with AI-assisted transcription

Topics Covered

Ideation, concept generation, and concept evaluation — including design history as a creative reference

Module 10: Design Analysis

With concepts in hand, the next discipline is critical evaluation. This module applies analytical frameworks — ergonomic assessment, feasibility-viability-desirability analysis, and design semantics — to stress-test concepts before committing to a direction.

Topics Covered

Design analysis and appreciation - ergonomics, usability, and modularity

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Product audit, part matrix, and the feasibility-viability-desirability framework

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Design attributes, semantics, and the elements of design: form, function, emotion, and expression

Module 11: AI-Powered Design Visualisation

Once a concept has been stress-tested and validated through rigorous design analysis, it needs to be communicated with clarity and precision. This module equips you to translate abstract thinking into compelling visual form, using AI-powered rendering and visualisation tools.

Topics Covered

Sketching and storyboarding to communicate design thinking

Topics Covered

Product visualisation and AI-powered rendering

Topics Covered

User flows, wireframing from low to high fidelity, and mock-up development

Module 12: AI-Assisted Prototyping, Testing, and Iterative Design

With a fully visualised concept in hand, the next step is to put it in front of real users. This module takes you through the complete prototyping and validation cycle, from MVP thinking to iterative design improvement, refining the design against actual user behaviour.

Topics Covered

Prototype development — digital and physical — and MVP thinking

Topics Covered

Test planning, usability testing, and collecting user feedback

Topics Covered

Interpreting feedback, refining the prototype, and iterating toward a stronger design

Module 13: AI-Powered Lead Magnets in Marketing

With a tested, validated product design in place, attention turns to market entry. This module introduces AI-powered lead generation strategy, equipping learners to design and deploy high-converting lead magnets that connect the right product with the right audience.

Topics Covered

What lead magnets are and how they work

Topics Covered

Designing high-converting lead magnets and building them with AI

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Strategies for promoting and distributing your lead magnet effectively

Module 14: Digital Marketing in the Agentic AI Age

Building on lead generation foundations, this module extends your marketing capability into autonomous, AI-driven systems — designing, deploying, and managing agentic workflows across functions to move from manual execution to intelligent automation at scale.

Topics Covered

Foundations of agentic AI and autonomous marketing systems

Topics Covered

Building and deploying autonomous marketing workflows across functions

Topics Covered

The future of AI-driven marketing and how to apply it in your organisation

Note: The curriculum is subject to periodic review and updates at the discretion of the faculty to ensure alignment with industry requirements.

Languages and Tools covered

Gain hands-on experience with AI tools to optimise workflows and build innovative solutions.

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    Browse AI

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    Perplexity

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    Claude

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    ChatGPT

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    Gemini

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    Ignition AI

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    YesChat AI

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    Miro

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    MindMap AI

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    Ideanote

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    Notion AI

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    Vizly AI

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    PromeAI

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    Vizcom

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    Storyboarder AI

Note: The tools listed above are indicative and subject to updates as technology evolves.

Who are the faculty for the course?

Learn from IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay faculty with deep expertise in product design, AI, and innovation.

  • Prof. Sandesh Ramu

    Prof. Sandesh Ramu

    Faculty | IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay

    Lead faculty for AI & Design Thinking programme

    Recipient of IIT Bombay Excellence in Teaching Award (2022)

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  • Prof. E. Yohan

    Prof. E. Yohan

    Faculty | IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay

    17 years of industry experience in Manufacturing & IT sectors.

    Expert in Product Interaction & System Design

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  • Prof. Nishant Kamboj

    Prof. Nishant Kamboj

    Adjunct Professor | IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay

    IIT Bombay Alumnus & Generative AI Specialist

    Expert in Design Thinking & Product Innovation

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  • Dhruv Parmar

    Dhruv Parmar

    Professor of Practice | IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay

    IIT Bombay Alumnus & Industrial Design Leader

    Expert in Product Innovation & Development

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  • Prasad Bokil

    Prasad Bokil

    Associate Professor | IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay

    IIT Bombay Alumnus & Design Education Expert

    Expert in User-Centred Design & Research

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Who are the industry speakers?

Interact with experienced product design experts who will guide you in your learning and career journey

  •  Poyni Bhatt  - Mentor

    Poyni Bhatt

    Visiting Professor of Practice Desai Sethi School of Entrepreneurship, IIT Bombay Fellow Company Secretary | Institute of Company Secretaries of India
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  •  Rajeev Suri  - Mentor

    Rajeev Suri

    Founding Partner BlueGreen Ventures | Former CMO, Reliance Jio | Former Head of Global Marketing, Infosys
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  •  Prandeep Gyanvir  - Mentor

    Prandeep Gyanvir

    Senior UX Designer | Amazon
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Note: The mentors listed above are indicative and subject to change based on availability and scheduling.

Course Fees

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    Gain hands-on expertise in AI-powered product design and innovation.

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    Designed and delivered by IIT Bombay faculty.

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    Experience an optional campus immersion and real-world design sprints.

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    Earn a certificate of completion from IIT Bombay.

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Application closes: 3rd Nov 2026

Application closes: 3rd Nov 2026

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Selection process

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    Interested candidates can apply by filling out a simple online application form.

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    Interview process

    Go through a mandatory discussion call with the registration office.

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    Offer of registration

    Selected candidates will receive an offer letter. They must pay the registration fee to confirm their seat and complete the registration.

Course eligibility

  • Bachelor’s degree in any discipline, with a minimum aggregate of 50% or equivalent.

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