University of Virginia

Coding User Interfaces with AI

Alex Cowan
Yael Grushka-Cockayne

Instructors: Alex Cowan

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level
No prior experience required
1 week to complete
at 10 hours a week
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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level
No prior experience required
1 week to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • How to transition ideas to designs, and how to translate those designs to code

  • How to build end user interfaces using HTML and CSS (with a transition to Javascript in course 2).

  • How to use analytical debugging to take the guess work and anxiety out of coding

  • How to use digital literacy to enhance your team's practice of agile

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June 2025

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4 assignments

Taught in English

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This course is part of the Coding with AI for MBAs Specialization
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There are 4 modules in this course

Get ready to code! As you’ll find, coding itself is no big thing, especially with AI. The big secret is that what outsiders think of as ‘coding’ actually requires a few fairly distinct activities to all work well together. This week, you’ll learn how to create focus like a designer, unfold designs like an architect, choose technology like a CTO, and, yes, code like a developer. And you’ll learn how to do it with AI.

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10 videos1 reading1 assignment

Building Views requires us to do two main jobs: declare an element and define its appearance. You learned how to declare View elements for your UI with HTML. This week, you’ll learn how to more effectively define the appearance and behavior of those View elements using CSS.

What's included

7 videos2 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt

Now that you have some practice building Views, we’re going to work on your fundamentals. First, we’ll focus on analytical debugging. To debug is to code, and comfort with the debugging process may be the most crucial component to ‘really’ learning how to code. Bonus item: AI is great both at helping and explaining in this area. We’ll also be looking at responsive design, an approach that helps us make sure our UX works well not just on computers, but also on mobile devices, etc.

What's included

11 videos1 reading1 assignment

Let’s take it from the top! This week you’re going to go from idea to code for an idea of your own. This will help you more fully internalize the four steps you’ve learned and, we hope, have some fun along the way.

What's included

7 videos1 reading1 assignment1 discussion prompt

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