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Designing Success
Designing Success from School to Studio by Rhiannon Lee is dedicated to filling in the gaps in your design course to encourage you to build a sustainable business that supports your dream lifestyle.
Are you searching for strategy, systems and support? Looking for a community to bounce industry issues around in? In this podcast, we will cover the interior design business infrastructure you need to supplement your design school curriculum with practical insights and actionable advice. We also cover all things marketing, product innovation, client acquisition, and more. Go beyond the theory, filter through the stuff that doesn’t serve you and get on with creating.
You will find real talk with industry professionals, practical tactics from business realists that leave you reenergised and focused on exactly how to improve the current landscape of your own business. For more behind the scenes of the interior design industry, check out oleander and finch in Instagram https://instagram.com/oleander_and_finch
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Designing Success
How to set your studio up properly to use a variety of AI tools
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AI is everywhere right now — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Midjourney, Nano Banana — and interior designers are being told they need to learn all of it.
But the real problem isn’t the tools.
It’s the lack of context.
In this episode of Designing Success, I break down how interior designers should actually be using AI inside their design studio, including:
• the AI Studio Stack and what each tool is best for
• why ChatGPT isn’t the best tool for photorealistic renders
• how tools like Claude, Gemini and Perplexity fit into a design business
• the mistake most designers make when experimenting with AI
• how to prepare your studio so AI tools actually understand your business
If you’ve tried AI and thought “this is kind of helpful but not life-changing”, this episode will explain why.
The secret is something I call the AI Context Layer.
AI performs dramatically better when it understands:
• your studio processes
• your services and pricing
• your brand voice
• your client communication
• your frameworks and intellectual property
That’s why I created a free guide to help designers start preparing their studio knowledge for AI.
Download the free guide here:
👉 How to Prepare Your Design Studio for AI
https://oleanderandfinch.myflodesk.com/aicontext
Inside the guide you’ll learn:
• the AI Context Drive every design studio should build
• the key documents that help ChatGPT behave like it works inside your business
• how to organise your Google Drive so AI tools actually understand your studio
This episode is for interior designers, decorators, and creative studio owners who want to integrate AI into their business without getting overwhelmed by tools.
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