UX in EdTech - Lighting Talks and Q&A

Ladies that UX Boston and Boston EdTech invite you to join us for an evening of lightning talks by UX professionals currently working in edtech. Each speaker will speak on some of their recent work, highlighting challenges and lessons learned in designing products for students and educators. After all talks, we’ll bring the speakers together for a panel Q&A where attendees can ask questions related to their work, career, and anything UX related.

For those already in UX, we hope the event can shed light on some of the unique research and design challenges when working with students and educators. For those interested in transitioning into UX or edtech, the event might be a good first step towards understanding what’s involved in creating effective products for different stakeholders in the education ecosystem.

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TENTATIVE AGENDA

6:30 - Intro from Ladies that UX and Boston EdTech
6:40 - Lightning Talks
7:10 - Panel Q&A
7:40 - Closing Announcements
7:45 - Breakout Room Networking

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SPEAKER BIOS AND TALK DESCRIPTIONS

Kathryn Weber-Hottleman
Accessibility Consultant, Deque Systems, Inc.
Kathryn Weber-Hottleman is an Accessibility Consultant with Deque Systems, Inc. She specializes in guiding clients to further their digital accessibility understanding and application to client systems. Prior to this, Kathryn served as the University of Connecticut's IT Accessibility Coordinator, where she developed and implemented an organization-wide digital accessibility program. Kathryn holds a CPWA certification from the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) and helped pilot the IAAP's Accessible Document Specialist certification.

The Intersection of UX and Accessibility
UX that is not accessible misses the huge demographic that is users with disabilities. However, just because an experience is accessible doesn't mean it's good UX. Balancing both priorities can be tricky, but ultimately it leads to a stronger design that reaches all users.

Claire Wang
Lead UX Designer at Curriculum Associates
Claire specializes in using design to improve teaching and learning experiences which scale. In her current role at Curriculum Associates, Claire focuses on how to tell a good data story to educators and school leaders to help them identify instructional opportunities to support all learners.

Teacher-Facing Product Discovery: Research, Ideation, and Prototyping
Designing a comprehensive product for teachers resembles service design. Significant resources go into the discovery phase just to ensure the team can understand the bigger picture and orchestrate the experience which helps service providers (teachers) support the end-customers (students). This case study is about a product discovery journey my team went on for an exciting new initiative.