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Akshat Mishra
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Build Your taste.md: Teach AI to Build Like You
AI design tools get you to a first draft in ten minutes. But the output looks like AI – generic, averaged, recognizable from the other side of the room. The last mile is the whole job: shaping that first draft into something that actually looks like you made it.
This 2-hour hands-on workshop walks through a real product problem together, iterating across three layers – product thinking, interaction design, visual craft. At each layer you'll make the calls: cut the feature nobody asked for, compress six onboarding screens into two, rebuild the type scale so hierarchy actually reads.
You'll leave with a file called taste.md –a written record of those calls, in your own voice. A file you can keep editing across projects, because your taste sharpens every time you use it. Most AI workflows today optimize the first draft. This workshop is about the file that makes everything after the first draft yours.
This workshop is for you if you're a designer, PM, or engineer who's shipped work with AI tools and felt that slight unease – it works, but it doesn't quite feel like yours. It's for you if you've tried to explain your taste to a teammate (or an AI) and realized you don't have the language for it yet. And it's for you if you want to leave Vienna with a concrete artifact, not a principle – a file you can feed back into your tools on Monday morning.
September 18, 2026 2:20 PM
September 18, 2026 4:20 PM
Europe/Vienna
Build Your taste.md: Teach AI to Build Like You
AI design tools get you to a first draft in ten minutes. But the output looks like AI – generic, averaged, recognizable from the other side of the room. The last mile is the whole job: shaping that first draft into something that actually looks like you made it.
This 2-hour hands-on workshop walks through a real product problem together, iterating across three layers – product thinking, interaction design, visual craft. At each layer you'll make the calls: cut the feature nobody asked for, compress six onboarding screens into two, rebuild the type scale so hierarchy actually reads.
You'll leave with a file called taste.md –a written record of those calls, in your own voice. A file you can keep editing across projects, because your taste sharpens every time you use it. Most AI workflows today optimize the first draft. This workshop is about the file that makes everything after the first draft yours.
This workshop is for you if you're a designer, PM, or engineer who's shipped work with AI tools and felt that slight unease – it works, but it doesn't quite feel like yours. It's for you if you've tried to explain your taste to a teammate (or an AI) and realized you don't have the language for it yet. And it's for you if you want to leave Vienna with a concrete artifact, not a principle – a file you can feed back into your tools on Monday morning.
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