Designers already use AI individually. The problem is that teams have no shared structure for it.

The MAIK Canvas
Hand holding phone with MAIK app

MAIK is a three-layer AI toolkit. Physical cards, a team canvas, and a digital app. It turns individual AI use into a shared team capability.

No code. No new platforms. No IT department required.

Three layers.
One toolkit.

Build your team's AI capability in steps. Each layer is designed to be explored together. Move to the next when you're ready.

Layer 1

MAIK Cards

Physical cards, each built around an established design method from the Delft Design Guide. Two-sided: the front presents a recognisable design scenario, the back contains a pre-written prompt with a single bracketed variable. Scan the QR code, fill in the topic, paste into any AI. No prior AI configuration knowledge required.

7 categories + Collins CXD · 56 cards
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Layer 1

MAIK Canvas

An A3 team artefact adapted from the Prompt Canvas (Hewing & Leinhos, 2024). Eight prompt configuration sections: Persona, Task and Intent, Context, Output, Audience, Step-by-Step, References, and Tone. The bottom row replaces technique recommendations with two reflection fields: What Worked and What Did Not Work. A team fills it in together, one member scans it through the MAIK app, and Claude assembles the handwriting into a reusable MAIK Card saved to the shared library.

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The MAIK Canvas People collaborating
The Application

The digital infrastructure
for every layer

The MAIK app connects physical cards, the team canvas, and Claude Skills in one shared system. Browse all 56 cards by category. Scan any physical card's QR code to copy the prompt to your clipboard and open your chosen AI. Photograph a filled-in canvas and Claude reads your handwriting into a structured prompt card. Save configurations to your personal library. Create custom cards. The app works across locations and time zones so every team member works from the same prompts, the same logic, and the same quality standard.

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Contextmapping (Research)
Design Brief (Synthesis)
Persona Builder (Analysis)
Stakeholder Presentation (Writing)
C-Box (Ideation)
Concept Stress Test (Critique)
Hand holding phone Scan Card
Prompt Library
Card Detail
Scan Card
MAIK Canvas
Library Browse
MAIK Home
AI Chat
Scanned Card
MAIK Cards
Desktop Experience

Working from
anywhere?

If your team is distributed, the same MAIK cards live in the desktop browser and the mobile app. Same prompts, same logic, available wherever your team explores AI together.

Your team's library.
Always in your hand.

Browse every card, save your team's go-to prompts, and discover what AI can do for the way your team works.

What is a Skill?

A Skill is a long, structured prompt — your team's best AI configuration, saved and reusable. Think of it like picking the right tool for the work in front of you: each Skill is built for one specific job, and your team always knows which one to grab.

A magnifying glass
Example Skill

Research Assistant

Searches the web and video transcripts for a topic, extracts the key claims with their sources, verifies them, and bundles everything into a structured dossier you can read in five minutes.

A stack of paper slides with a paper clip
Example Skill

Slide Deck Builder

Takes a written brief or research dossier and turns it into a presentation deck with the right structure, hierarchy, and tone — no manual slide-juggling required.

An open sketchbook with a pencil
Example Skill

Brainstorm Partner

Acts as a thinking partner during early-stage ideation: summarises rough notes, surfaces fresh angles, and generates concept variations the team can react to.

Share prompts and Skills.
Across your team.

Save your go-to prompts and Skills into a shared project file. Your whole team works from the same structured library, with no duplicated effort and no scattered knowledge.

Layer 2

From Canvas to Skill

The step from MAIK Canvas to a Skill is a natural extension. The Canvas teaches designers to structure AI interaction into eight components. A Skill is the persistent, automatically triggered version of that same documented configuration. The Canvas is a session artefact. The Skill is what that artefact becomes when it is formalised, uploaded, and made reusable for every future session.

MAIK Canvas in use

Capture the canvas.
Reuse the prompt.

Photograph a filled-in canvas and the app reads your handwriting into a structured prompt card your whole team can run.

Layer 3 — Orchestration

Skills connected in sequence.

Call one Skill in the chat, review the output, then hand it off to the next Skill. The human review checkpoint stays with you.

1Call a Skill
2You review
3Hand off
Research Assistant — Output
Passenger Comfort Trends
Research Summary · April 2026
01 — Key findings
02 — Signals from interviews
03 — Sources
[1] airline-experience-report-2025.pdf
[2] youtube.com/@seatguru · 12 videos
[3] skift.com/passenger-trends-q1
Slide Deck Builder — Output
Context
PASSENGER COMFORT
Three trends
shaping 2026.
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Hands typing Keyboard

MAIK is about
making AI a team capability.

One good prompt helps one person once. A structured configuration helps everyone, every time. MAIK turns individual AI experiments into shared, repeatable workflows your organisation can build on.

Case Studies

Case Study Collins Aerospace How MAIK was deployed at a global aviation company to transform early-stage design research. Case Study TU Delft Design Students Can designers learn to structure AI interaction and design their own Skills in a single session?

See MAIK in action

A three-minute walkthrough of the full system — the cards, the canvas, and the Skills working together.

Try MAIK

Explore the designed artefacts

MAIK Cards

Browse all 56 MAIK Cards across 7 categories. Each card is a design method reformatted as a structured AI prompt.

MAIK Canvas (Digital)

The digital companion to the A3 poster. Fill in the eight prompt configuration sections and preview the assembled prompt.

Card Maker

Create custom MAIK Cards. Add a title, tagline, category, AI tool, and prompt text to build your own configurations.