D656: Leveraging AI and Technology in Design

Leveraging AI and Technology in Design addresses AI's genuine impact on the design field — ethical use, team guidelines, and real productivity gains.

What D656 covers

The course provides students with the current landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), how it has evolved, and its impact on design. Students gain skills to use AI and new technologies ethically and innovatively.

Students lead teams in devising ethical guidelines for using AI in designing digital products and enhance organizational productivity using design technology.

The D656 performance assessment

Expect a performance assessment requiring you to develop ethical AI usage guidelines for a design team or evaluate an AI design tool's ethical implications.

Key topics in D656

• AI landscape and evolution in design
• Ethical AI use in design
• Devising team AI guidelines
• Technology-enhanced design productivity

Writing tips for D656

Follow the task instructions and rubric line by line

WGU performance assessments for D656 are graded against a fixed rubric — every rubric line has to be visibly addressed, usually with a labeled heading that mirrors the rubric language. Skipping a rubric point because it seems minor is the single most common reason a competent submission comes back "Not Yet Competent" for revision.

Ground your work in a specific audience or organization, not generic advice

Courses like D656 typically hand you a specific audience, brand, or organizational scenario and expect your work to genuinely fit that context, not communication/design principles in the abstract. Evaluators check whether your reasoning is grounded in the specific scenario given.

Because WGU is self-paced, don't let "no deadline pressure" become no submission

There's no weekly due date forcing progress, which means procrastination costs more at WGU than at a traditional term-based school — a stalled task can quietly eat weeks of a term. Treat your own target date for the D656 assessment as a real deadline.

Why students seek help with D656

Candidates sometimes discuss AI design tools' capabilities without the ethical-implications analysis the course specifically requires — the rubric typically wants that ethical dimension addressed explicitly.

How GradeEssays helps with D656

Share your task instructions and rubric, and your writer will build a response addressing genuine ethical implications, not AI capability description alone.

Prerequisites and program context

D656 has no listed additional prerequisites.

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