In organizations with small research teams or UX teams of one, the capacity for adequate user research can be challenging. Managing requests and design needs from multiple teams can often compromise consistent user outreach. Scaling efforts with limited time and resources is an act of creativity within itself, but not impossible.
Read MoreLinda Brown – User Experience Architect: I get to collaborate with multiple departments, design product interfaces, then test those designs with customers (including students) to ensure we have produced high-quality, user-centered experiences. Creativity and collaboration is essential to my role, which is why I love my job. It’s truly a joy to watch students and teachers interact with designs I helped create, knowing that the work we are doing has an impact on so many people.
Read MoreTwo of Learning.com’s core values really resonate with the research and design effort that goes into our products: ‘Listen’ and ‘Know Our Customers’. We take this to heart and our teams regularly conduct focus groups to ensure that we are building deep understanding of what administrators, teachers and students need in order to be successful in the classroom.
To do this, it’s essential to get out of the office and go visit schools. What we learn from our focus groups always exceeds our expectations and helps us have a better understanding for some of the challenges that teachers and students face in the classroom.
Read MoreThe role technology has played within our world has changed at an astonishing rate. When I think back to the tech-toys of my youth, the options were much more analog in nature with chunky push buttons and 8-bit sounds. The days of scantrons and #2 pencils are going by the wayside and as parents, we need to give our kids the best chance in this new digital age. That begins with Digital Literacy.
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