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Guidelines for using Gen AI in Design Education
The Creative Futures team drafted these guidelines throughout the 2025/26 school year based on extensive feedback and input from students and faculty. Faculty within and outside of design are welcome to use and evolve these guidelines alongside students on a project-by-project basis.
The goals for these guidelines:
Use consistent language, guidelines, and reasoning across the department so that students know what to expect and are not left guessing what technology they can/can't use, why, and how.
Enable faculty to adapt a simple policy for their own preferences and for the needs of their students within the context of specific project work.
The Process
To draft flexible AI guidelines for the SJSU Design Department, we drafted language based on insights from student and faculty codesign workshops. Then we visited multiple classes in person across Industrial Design, Graphic Design, and Animation to get feedback from 300+ students. We asked them to write their own guidelines and to edit our draft. You'll see artifacts from this work below.
Examples of feedback sheets
Selected edits and feedback, sorted by content
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