Greg Aper

Chief Exploration Officer, Superunknown Studios   Greg is a Design x Gen AI pioneer helping designers navigate the uncharted frontiers of artificial intelligence. He infuses 25 years of deep design domain expertise with a decade of artificial intelligence exploration and public speaking to kickstart designers’ AI skills. His Design x AI expertise includes ML foundations, AI cognition, LLM communications, prompt engineering, GPT creation, AI design tools, and advanced AI design techniques. He is currently providing Design x Gen AI classes, workshops, and consulting services to a global audience of individual designers, design studios, and corporate design teams.    Greg’s extensive real-world design experience includes UX research, UX/UI design, product design, industrial design, and brand design.  He has led emerging technology design programs with internationally recognized companies such as Ford, Dell, Philips, Cisco, Samsung, Panasonic, Google, Intel, and Georgia-Pacific.    Greg is a full-time dog lover, part-time Chicago Cubs, Blackhawks, & Tottenham fan, amateur wildlife photographer, and professional artificial intelligence supergeek. His first public talk about the potential of artificial intelligence for design was for IDSA in 2017.       

Activities for Greg

Speaker | Designing with AI Deep Dive | 2024

Superhuman-Centered Design With AI   

An exploration of the cognitive skills and advanced techniques needed to go beyond using AI for perfunctory design parlor tricks and unlock its potential to transcend the design profession. Learn the foundational psychology, processes, and methods that will supercharge your creative talents with an infusion of Design x Gen AI knowledge. A series of live demos will showcase a new paradigm in design techniques and make you rethink how you view the future of designers in the Age of AI.   

This workshop is a hot-minute version of an all-day workshop which will be given at UXLx2024 in Lisbon in late May.  

Optimal for:

  • All professional levels of designers  
  • All subdomains within the design field  
  • Domain experts who work with designers  

 

Workshop includes:

  • Generative AI best-practices & cognition  
  • Building Design x Gen AI superframeworks  
  • Advanced Design x Gen AI techniques  
  • Integrating AI into your design process & business  

 

Live demos of advanced techniques:

  • Creating specialized design prompts, instructions, & GPTs  
  • Progressive feeding  
  • Crafting meaningful AI user personas & imagery   
  • Query quilting  

 

 

Speaker | West DDC | 2018