The Challenge

Build a chatbot to address another real-world problem. An aid for educators in lesson planning, quickly providing them with tailored educational content. This bot had to balance a functional, straightforward service with slight hint of quirky personality, marked by its distinctive confirmation “Roger Roger”.

The Approach

Still leveraging what I learned in Conversation Design and AI Training, RogerRoger uses a custom knowledgebase for dynamic content retrieval. This meant creating a database of interchangeable activities to generate modular lesson plans. Although RogerRoger has a slight utilitarian personality, I was careful to maintain friendly a demeanor.

The Final Product

Well, it ain’t final yet. RogerRoger is being designed to deliver lesson planning assistance with no fuss. It will initially operate with a limited set of core functionalities, providing educators with a selection of activities for their lesson plans, and does so with an occasionally quirky, succinct charm.

The UX Impact

The roadmap for RogerRoger includes a few enhancements: refining and expanding lesson plan customization, enabling educators to craft lesson plans from scratch, introducing the ability to save plans for future use, and integrating the bot with a full-featured dashboard. As with all my work, this is set for extensive user testing to further refine its capabilities.

After determining the bot’s general function, I generally start with a Bot Persona worksheet. This helps inform the conversation design canvas and check solve points I’ll need for flow diagrams.

This sets the context for how the conversations will begin and finish. Everyone and everything has their needs and situation accounted for.

Sample dialog. Like a movie script, it can change all through development.

This captures the main loop of the proposed customized lesson flow.

Checking the flow response. I often find it necessary to use different LLMs throughout the bot’s responses.

Trying to keep a clean and organized canvas.

Testing the prototype.