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Learn tactical ways to update your user research, improve teacher personas, and design more competitive EdTech products....

If you're leading an internal product team, you know how powerful user testing can be for creating a truly special EdTech product....

Learning how to codesign with teachers throughout the product design process will make your learning products more effective....

As EdTech becomes more competitive and markets tighten, many of the companies we work with are facing new pressures before they design...

You’ve likely asked your product team to conduct a competitive audit before kicking off the design proc...

User experience research, or UXR, is the key to understanding your primary users without losing valuabl...

Teachers are notoriously busy, which means perfecting product usability should be a UX priority. In our...

Conducting user experience testing for your digital product in a classroom setting is exciting. You fin...

If you’re used to glossing over persona work because you haven’t seen a return on investment, think aga...

When members of our Teacher Council welcomed students back this fall, they weren’t necessarily excited...

We always want to know if the learning tools we design for teachers and students will work for them. Do...

As teachers returned to in-person instruction this year, they reported unprecedented learning gaps betw...

The rise of parents as an edTech user persona represents a major shift for edTech companies, and there...

As we begin to apply lessons from remote learning to new product roll-outs, edTech product owners have...

Welcome to our Team Member Spotlight! Every month we interview a member of our team and highlight their...

No matter who your digital tool is for, that tool should reflect your user’s environment. This includes...

At Backpack Interactive, we love teachers. In any user experience research (UXR) we conduct, teachers f...

UX designers in the edTech space are specialists who participate in a community of educators. To design...

We were 10 minutes into a Zoom call with my 13-year-old daughter’s school when her teacher asked us for...

If your company has adopted Facebook’s “move fast and break things” approach to product development, yo...