Overview
What this challenge is about.
You receive a short Loom walkthrough of the live product, a CSV of 5,000 anonymized teacher-flagged sessions, and three teacher interview transcripts. Audit the existing sidebar against Nielsen's 10 usability heuristics (a classic usability checklist) and the Microsoft Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction. Redesign the chat affordances, error recovery, and visible-uncertainty cues so the assistant nudges students toward reasoning. Deliver a clickable Figma prototype that covers three core flows (asking for help, getting stuck, finishing a problem) plus a one-page rationale doc the product team will share with engineering.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Redesign the AI tutor's chat interaction so students reason more and copy-paste less, with measurable usability evidence.
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Apply Nielsen heuristics and Microsoft Human-AI guidelines to a real product
- Translate qualitative interviews and quantitative session logs into design decisions
- Design interaction patterns that surface AI uncertainty to non-expert users
- Communicate design trade-offs to a cross-functional product team
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
Careers
Roles this prepares you for.
Real titles. Real skill bridges. Pick the one closest to your trajectory.
AI Product Designer
Auditing a live AI surface and shipping a defensible redesign with a rationale doc is the exact day-one work of a junior AI product designer at any AI-forward startup.
This challenge sharpens
- interaction-design
- figma-prototyping
- human-ai-interaction
AI Product Manager
Translating teacher interviews plus usage data into a prioritized usability backlog mirrors the AI PM's daily job of turning mixed signals into decisions.
This challenge sharpens
- usability-evaluation
- user-centred-design
- human-ai-interaction
Prompt Engineer
Designing the Socratic interaction sets up the system-prompt and tool-use redesign that prompt engineers ship next, giving the student a credible bridge into that role.
This challenge sharpens
- human-ai-interaction
- interaction-design
- user-centred-design