Designing with Coding Agents
with
Romello Goodman
Every tool has its own grain. A brush favors gestures, a grid favors order, and a coding agent favors conversation. Each changes what it means to author something.
In this workshop, students use a coding agent as a creative collaborator to write JavaScript and p5.js sketches. Week one, you make a word move. Week two, you build a tool that manipulates letterforms. Week three, your body becomes the input.
Whether you've written code before or not, this course serves as an introduction to coding agents. It ttreats the agent as a new kind of design tool: one worth understanding, questioning, and making your own.
Materials
- A computer with internet connection
- VS Code
- A Claude Pro subscription ($20/month)
About Romello Goodman
Romello Goodman is an artist and designer based in Baltimore, Maryland. As a designer and engineer, he has written software for storytellers and built tools for designers at organizations including Anthropic, Block, Shopify and now The New York Times. Goodman's writing has appeared in Black Joy Archive and Logic Magazine. As an educator, he serves as an adjunct professor in the Graphic Design department at Maryland Institute College of Art, has conducted workshops at Cooper Union in New York and Letterform Archive in San Francisco, and was named the 2025 Scrimshaw Distinguished Visiting Artist at Russell Sage College.