Canvas AI Assistant — Cocomo Creative Collective

This was a group project with Chikara Nakamura, Isabella Zhao, and Jenna Gensheimer for our final in UW DES 215. Canvas is good at telling you what is due, but not always what to do with everything once it starts piling up. We designed an AI assistant for the To-Do page that could look at the week ahead, sort work by due date and effort, and show where its answers were coming from.

My part focused on the main screens, the clickable prototype, and figuring out what should happen when the AI gets something wrong. That ended up being one of my favorite parts of the project. We showed three versions of the same interaction: when it gets the answer right, when it needs more information, and when it gets something wrong and has to recover. I wanted it to feel like something that could actually work, not just a perfect demo.

Slides are shown in the deck order we presented.

Tap through the happy path

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01The ranked to-doEvery course in one list, ordered by due date and how long each task takes.
02Open the assistantThe chat pins to the top of the page with three starting chips.
03Ask a real question“What do I turn in for prototypes?”
04A sourced answerThree artifacts, the deadline, an effort estimate, and where to start.
05Keep goingChips stay available so the next question is one tap away.