# AI Product Design with Canva Code

> Secondary and JC students build a working digital product in Canva Code through a disciplined design process — structured prompting, user-centred interfaces, structured data, dashboards, and product presentation.

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- Audiences: Students, Teachers
- Duration: 26 hours
- Domains: Design, Prototyping, and UI/UX, Design Thinking, Computer Science Fundamentals
- Platforms: Canva
- Published: 2026-10-17
- Updated: 2026-10-23

## Should our school choose Canva Code or Figma for IMDA LEARN Roadmaps?

Choose AI Product Design with Canva Code if you want students to build a working digital product (forms, data records, and a dashboard) by directing AI with structured prompts, explaining their logic before they generate anything. Choose UI/UX Design with Figma if you want the focus on user research, screen design, and clickable prototypes, with AI used in only one guided lesson. Both are 26-hour courses for secondary and JC students that run in the browser on laptops or Chromebooks. Neither needs prior experience.

Compare: [UI/UX Design with Figma](https://tinkercademy.com/programmes/imda-figma-2027/)

## 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.

## Enquiries

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