Course Overview
AI-assisted product design using Canva Code and the Canva ecosystem. Students build a working digital product through a disciplined design process: structured prompting, user-centred interface design, interaction design, structured data, dashboards, public API concepts, and product presentation.
The course is deliberately framed as AI-assisted product design rather than AI application development. Students learn that AI can help generate and revise prototypes, but they must first explain what they intend to build. Before prompting, students describe flows such as user input to logic to output, user to interface to API to data to interface, or form to fields to records to dashboard — keeping the learning centred on computational thinking, product reasoning, and human judgement.
Later lessons cover structured data, forms, dashboards, and presentation, ending with a product showcase. No prior coding or design experience is needed.
Lesson Outcomes
Use structured prompting frameworks to direct Canva Code with clear audience, context, constraints, and examples.
Apply an Explain Before You Prompt routine by describing user input, logic, output, interface flow, data flow, or dashboard flow before AI generation.
Design and personalise product interfaces for a defined target user, with attention to hierarchy, readability, and accessibility.
Model structured data — forms, fields, and records — and present it through dashboards.
Test, critique, and revise a digital product through peer feedback.
Present a finished product and explain the design decisions behind it.
Details
Project
Each student builds and presents a working digital product — designed, iterated, and explained from first principles — ready for a school showcase.
Requirements
Computer: A laptop, Chromebook, desktop, or school PLD with a modern browser and stable Wi-Fi.
Software: Canva with Canva Code, Sheets, and Forms, provided free by Tinkertanker as an authorised Canva training partner. Everything runs in the browser with nothing to install. School IT should allow access to Canva and data.gov.sg.
Hardware: None required.