Overview
What this challenge is about.
Audit an edtech AI tutor’s chat sidebar, redesign error recovery and uncertainty cues, and deliver a Figma prototype. Earn a verifiable certificate.
The scenario
The edtech (~45 staff) sells per-seat licenses to secondary schools in Spain, Portugal, and Italy and is preparing for a Series B; a believable usability story is part of the deck.
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.
Aligned coursework coming soon.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- User Centred Design
Apply user centred design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Heuristic Evaluation
Apply heuristic evaluation to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Interaction Design
Apply interaction design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Figma Prototyping
Apply figma prototyping to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Human Ai Interaction
Apply human ai interaction to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Usability Evaluation
Apply usability evaluation 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
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