# We Didn't Teach Our Designers AI: We Built a Place Where They Could Learn It Together

DevFeed: [We Didn't Teach Our Designers AI: We Built a Place Where They Could Learn It Together](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/we-didn-t-teach-our-designers-ai-we-built-a-place-where-they-could-learn-it-together-9162.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://slack.design/articles/we-didnt-teach-our-designers-ai-we-built-a-place-where-they-could-learn-it-together/>)

Author: andyacevedo

Published: 2026-07-08T09:00:10Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Slack Design](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/slack-design.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Slack](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/slack.md>)

Tags: [2025](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2025.md>), [2026](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2026.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-tools.md>), [beginner](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/beginner.md>), [enablement](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/enablement.md>), [learn](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/learn.md>), [slack](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack.md>), [training](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/training.md>), [uncategorized](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/uncategorized.md>)

## AI overview

Slack Design describes how it created a collaborative learning environment to help designers become comfortable using AI. Beginning with a Slack channel and informal training in early 2025, the initiative evolved in 2026 into design-focused enablement programming and Builder Days where designers, engineers, and product managers built together with AI.

## Source excerpt

The Question We Kept Hearing "How do I use AI?" That question, typed in a DM rather than asked out loud, told us everything. Our design team was not short on curiosity. What was missing was somewhere to be a beginner. A space where not knowing wasn't a liability, but the whole point. So we [...] The post We Didn't Teach Our Designers AI: We Built a Place Where They Could Learn It Together appeared first on Slack Design.