Overview
What this challenge is about.
Conversational UI for a Personal-Finance Assistant. Intermediate challenge in design. Designing real products under real constraints, earn a blockchain-verif...
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Design and prototype a conversational UI for a personal-finance assistant that handles confidence, citations, and graceful failure across 4 scenarios.
This is not a design exercise. It is the work a product designer does between a brief and a shipped interface. That distinction matters to every hiring manager who has seen candidates redesign Spotify's homepage and none who have worked under real product constraints.
When you finish, you will have something most graduates do not: a real-world deliverable, verified by Ewance, that you can show to a hiring manager and say "I did this. Here is the proof."
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Design conversational UI states for confidence, citations, and out-of-scope
- Build a working prototype that exercises real backend tools
- Run a small think-aloud user test and integrate the findings
- Communicate design trade-offs in a way a product team can act on
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Aligned coursework coming soon.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Conversational Ui
Apply conversational ui to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Dialogue Design
Apply dialogue design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Trust Design
Apply trust design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- User Research
Conduct interviews, surveys, and usability tests to uncover actionable user insights.
- Prototyping
Apply prototyping to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Tool Use
Apply tool use to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:
AI Product Designer
Designing trust-aware conversational UI with explicit confidence and citation states is the day-one job of an AI product designer in consumer fintech.
This challenge sharpens
- conversational-ui
- trust-design
- user-research
AI Product Manager
Connecting Jobs-to-be-Done scenarios to dialogue design and tool calls is exactly the work AI product managers own.
This challenge sharpens
- conversational-ui
- user-research
- tool-use
Prompt Engineer
Designing the dialogue surface and writing the system + tool-use prompts that animate it is core prompt-engineer territory in product teams.
This challenge sharpens
- dialogue-design
- prototyping
- tool-use