User needs
User needs come first and are established by research, not by assumption about what would be impressive.
AI for Kids · Class 10 · Module 6 of 9
AI Products and Interfaces
The model is the easy part. The interface is where products succeed or fail.
8 sessionsSessions 41–48
4 weeksTypical pace
AppliedLevel
Class 10Artificial Intelligence
The big idea
Students design an AI product from user needs, decide which features genuinely warrant AI, prototype the interface, and improve it based on what testers actually do.
Why it matters
Product thinking is what turns technical capability into something people use. It is the rarer skill of the two.
Unpacked
What you will actually learn
Three core ideas, each taught with worked examples and then practised until it feels obvious.
Feature design
Feature design decides where AI genuinely helps and where a simple button is better — and it usually is.
Prototype feedback
Prototype feedback comes from watching testers, then changing the design rather than explaining it.
Did you know?
Products often fail not because the AI was weak but because users could not tell what the system was doing or why.
Common mix-up
“Add AI and it is better.” Unnecessary AI adds latency, cost and unpredictability to something that worked fine.
Session by session
Your 8-session journey
Sessions 41–48 of the 72-session year, at two one-hour sessions per week.
- 1
Warm-up and big picture
Where this module fits, what you will build, and a hands-on starter that gets everyone curious about user needs.
- 2
User needs
Guided teaching on user needs, worked through together with the teacher.
- 3
User needs — practice lab
Independent practice, small challenges and one deliberate mistake to diagnose.
- 4
Feature design
Guided teaching on feature design, building directly on the previous two sessions.
- 5
Feature design — practice lab
Applied tasks that combine user needs and feature design in one piece of work.
- 6
Prototype feedback
Prototype feedback introduced and practised, completing the toolkit needed for the project.
- 7
Project build
Guided build session for the module project: Clickable AI product concept.
- 8
Test, present and reflect
Finish, test against the checklist, present the work and explain the decisions behind it.
Project lab
Clickable AI product concept
Every module ends with something the student built themselves and can demonstrate. This is the piece that goes into their portfolio and gets explained out loud at the end of session 48.
Try this at home
List your features and mark each as “needs AI” or “does not”. Be honest — most will not.
It is finished when
- It works from start to finish without breaking
- You can explain every part of it in your own words
- You tested it and improved at least one thing afterwards
- Someone else used or understood it without your help
By the end of this module
Students finishing Module 6 can:
- Explain and use user needs without prompting
- Explain and use feature design without prompting
- Explain and use prototype feedback without prompting
- Build and finish clickable ai product concept
- Test your own work and correct what you find
- Talk an adult through what you made and why
Word bank
The vocabulary introduced here, in plain language:
- user need
- A real problem a person wants solved.
- interface
- How a person interacts with a system.
- latency
- The delay before a system responds.
Module challenge
Think you have got this?
0 XPLevel 1 · Curious Beginner
6 quick questions drawn from this module — vocabulary, the project you build, and a myth-or-fact round. Every wrong answer explains itself, so a mistake still teaches you something.
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