Conversation Design Institute was founded in 2018 by Hans van Dam and Olaf Igesz. They believed that recognizing, developing, and promoting the role of the conversation designer was crucial to advancing trust and communication between humans and AI Assistants.
The CDI Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to developing and promoting design standards for conversational AI Assistants. We do this through research, education and industry development.
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Learn the conversational AI workflow that is helping teams around the world create human-centric and inclusive conversational AI Assistants. This cour…
Learn the Conversation Design Institute workflow with extra attention to human-centricity, sample dialogue, flowchart design, wizard-of-oz testing, an…
Hillary Black joins CDI’s Rachel Whitehorn to unpack how conversation design roles are evolving, from scripted flows to prompt-based systems. She shar…
Learn what Conversation design is. And learn how to apply all the fundamental conversation design principles and techniques, to create a successful Co…
The key steps in the CDI Workflow, which design patterns should be used for which type of experience, and lots of examples of how to write good dialog…
After a year of rapid change in conversational AI, the real work remains the same: building assistants that actually perform. Join CDI’s consultancy e…
Learn practical Conversation Design patterns for building AI agents that are clear, trustworthy, and customer-focused. This course gives you a reusabl…
IBM’s Thomas Watson Jr. said, “Good design is good business.” How does this apply to conversational AI today? This talk explores the benefits of prior…
In this episode of Unprompted, Karen Kaushansky, UX Lead for Gemini Live at Google DeepMind, shares how conversation design has evolved from flowchart…
In this episode of Unprompted, Nandini Stocker joins Hans van Dam to explore how conversational AI is evolving in the LLM era, from scripting dialogue…
Learn the fundamentals of AI ethics and how to apply ethical principles in the conversational AI workflow. Explore real-world dilemmas, prevent harmfu…
Discover how to unlock value from your conversational data to smash through the glass ceiling of your AI assistant performance. Gain practical strateg…
Discover how AI-driven chatbots and virtual assistants can transform operations, enhance customer experiences, and improve efficiency. This webinar of…
In this episode of Unprompted, Hans van Dam speaks with Grace Hughes of Accenture Song about growing a conversation design practice in the enterprise.…
Jason is multi Webby award winner and expert character designer. He started out as a filmmaker but fell in love with conversational AI many years ago.…
Get a basic understanding of how AI Assistants work and become familiar with the workflow of designing conversations. Train your skills right away wit…
Learn how ChatGPT can be used to maximise the performance of your chatbots and IVR systems and create delightful conversational experiences. The cours…
Greg Bennet is head of conversation design at Salesforce. He heads up the team that is challenged on a daily basis with advocating conversation design…
One size doesn’t fit all in conversational logic. Christian Buchwald, Chatbot Enthusiast at Cognigy, shares how to build resilience in conversation de…
SPEAKING model – a conceptual framework where we turn abstract concepts in Conversational AI into something that can help us systematically gather lan…
Learn about how to create or refine your conversational AI persona. Learn how to create content to flesh out that personality and make your conversati…
Experts who shaped personas for Google, Babylon Health, and Daimler discuss why brands need personas, how to develop them, and their role in personali…
Jason Gilbert from Intuition Robotics discusses designing ElliQ, an AI companion for elderly users. He explores persona design, building trust in heal…
A 3-5 year view of how virtual assitants will become ubiquitous and part of how we manage our personal lives. For that to come about we explore what n…
CDI’s Jasper Klimbie and Michelle Parayil deliver a rare, practical webinar focused on providing guidance on how mature organizations are in their Con…