Overview
What this challenge is about.
You will work from 4 scripted scenarios: 'how much did I spend on coffee last month', 'why did my rent payment fail', 'help me set up an emergency fund', and an out-of-scope 'is this stock a good buy'. Design the conversational UI with confidence indicators, citations to source data, and a clear escalation surface. Build a working backend (Python + Streamlit) that exercises the flows against tool stubs (spend lookup, payment lookup, savings calculator). Run a 5-user think-aloud test on the prototype and incorporate findings. Success is all 4 scenarios completable end-to-end, all 5 users reporting they would trust the assistant, and a design rationale that maps each UI choice to a user-research insight.
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.
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.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
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Careers
Roles this prepares you for.
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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