Course Summary
The Professional Certificate in AI for Design helps creative practitioners integrate AI into their design process and shape the future of their field. Through a critical, practical, and future-facing lens, the programme explores the power and potential of designing for and with AI. Learners will develop technical, ethical, and conceptual fluency in AI tools while anticipating what’s next in design innovation.
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Career Sectors
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Entry Requirements
Application Details
NCAD
Application Date:
31/03/2026
The Student
Career Interests
This course is typically suited for people with the following Career Interests. If these interests do not describe you, this course may prepare you for work you may not find satisfying.
Creative
Creative people are drawn to careers and activities that enable them to take responsibility for the design, layout or sensory impact of something (visual, auditory etc). They may be atrracted to the traditional artistic pursuits such as painting, sculpture, singing, or music. Or they may show more interest in design activities, such as architecture, animation, or craft areas, such as pottery and ceramics.
Creative people use their personal understanding of people and the world they live in to guide their work. Creative people like to work in unstructured workplaces, enjoy taking risks and prefer a minimum of routine.
Career Progression
Graduates will be equipped to advance in design innovation roles, or emerging AI–design hybrid careers.
The programme seeks to provide the transversal and specialist skills to equip creative practitioners to work within existing career paths, while also forging new career and creative pathways as creative educators and facilitators.
