Introducing Backpack Interactive’s Teacher Council

At Backpack Interactive, we love teachers. In any user experience research (UXR) we conduct, teachers frequently provide the best insights about how edTech products work in real classrooms across the country. After all, edTech tools are an extension of what happens in the classroom. That’s why it’s important to consider teachers’ needs in all the […]

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September 29, 2020

What’s Your Baseline? How to Make UXR More Valuable for Your Next edTech Product

UX designers in the edTech space are specialists who participate in a community of educators. To design well, they must have more than a working understanding of best practices in UI. edTech UX designers also need a background in learning science and user research. These specialties help UX designers accurately identify and design for the […]

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September 11, 2020

How to Design Impactful Digital Experiences on a Small Budget

Nonprofit and community organizations are already working hard to support their communities with few resources. The realities of the COVID-19 pandemic have made delivering these services even more challenging, especially for organizations that depend on in-person programming. If your mission is to fill a critical gap with educational programming or services, it’s our mission to […]

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August 12, 2020

How Universal Design for Learning Principles Improve edTech Tools for Every User

Now more than ever, parents and educators are searching for edTech products that target instructional gaps revealed during this past spring’s unprecedented dive into remote learning. For parents and teachers of students with special needs, identifying software for special needs education takes on even more urgency. During remote learning, special educators must manage the unique […]

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August 6, 2020

Remote Learning Puts Teachers in the Role of UX Designers. What’s Next for edTech?

Teachers have always recognized how valuable in-person instruction is. In fact, they rely on these relationships to help students succeed. This dynamic is central to how they learn to gauge student progress—even without formal assessment. When at-home learning made one-on-one instruction next to impossible, teachers had to pivot. They immediately reached for new ways to […]

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