Computational design is awesome. You’ve seen it do incredible things, automating tasks, generating geometry, solving complex problems.
But when it comes to your own work, you can’t quite figure out how any of it applies to you.
You’ve been through training sessions, workshops, and online courses but they never seem to stick. It becomes something "you'll get to, when you're free". You're never going to have the time.
I mean it's cool technology, sure. But what do you actually do with it?
You feel like you should be doing more, learning more, leveraging technology better… but you just don’t know where to start.
I know firsthand how frustrating it can be to learn something new that doesn’t feel relevant to your work. To put in the effort, attend workshops, take courses, and still not see how to use it in real life.
I was the same with programming when I first started.
In my first year of engineering, I took a programming unit that taught us how to make tic-tac-toe. It was infuriating, I took an engineering degree to do real engineering work, not to make kiddie games.
But once I saw how programming related to what I was actually doing, I was hooked. I’ve been programming every day since. I went from almost failing that unit to making programming a core part of my career.
This course is my attempt to bring that same sense of relevance to computational design.
It’s built to help you apply it to your own work, not just learn which buttons to click in Grasshopper.
So many courses tell you what computational design is, but never show you how to use it.
This isn’t another Grasshopper or Dynamo tutorial.
It’s a course that helps you apply what you learn to real projects.
The course is made up of five modules, each packed with examples, exercises, and resources to help you turn what you learn into something actionable.
Every lesson is drawn from my own experience as a computational designer.
A definition and perspective of what computational design is, just so we are on the same page
A practical overview of Grasshopper, Dynamo, Python, and others. Includes links to resources if you want to go deeper.
Learn the Identify → Assess → Solve framework, the same system I use to decide when and how to apply computational design effectively.
We’ll go step-by-step through how to use it in real projects, including examples from my own work.
Learn how to communicate and document your tools so others can understand and use them.
Turn this into a repeatable process you can apply anytime. I’ll show you how to make each iteration more intentional and valuable.
I know we are all busy, so nothing's worse that spending time learning something that may or may not work. I hate sitting through workshops or courses where someone shows me cool and fancy things but I have no idea how it relates to my life.
This course isn't your typical Grasshopper or Dynamo online course. It's a course that teaches you how to actually apply computational design to your work.
Even if you’re new to the tools, the framework you’ll learn here will help you start solving real problems in the context of your day-to-day work. It’s designed to turn anything you learn about computational design into something practical and useful.
This course is for anyone who wants to make computational design actually useful in their day-to-day work.
It's for:
That’s everything you need to know.
If this sounds valuable to you, I’d love to have you inside the course.
If it’s not the right fit, that’s okay, no hard feelings.
Either way, I hope you go make something great.
~Braden