UXD
User Experience Design, the process of enhancing user satisfaction by improving the usability, accessibility, and pleasure provided in the interaction between the user and the product.
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Designing for Human Judgement in AI-Powered EdTech
Part 4 of an ongoing series on vibe coding in EdTech. The first version of my course builder had a problem, and the problem was me. I’d been building a personal tool…
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Low-Bandwidth Course Design
When I work with rural districts across the Great Plains, the same frustration comes up in different words: the course is built, the content is good, and a good share of the…
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Paywalls, Lock-Ins, and Bugs in Educational Technology
Revised September 2026. The original version of this piece made a number of claims without sources, borrowed a passage from Martin Weller without crediting him, and described a lawsuit that had already…
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The Hidden Cost of EdTech Complexity
There’s a habit in educational technology of celebrating how many tools we can chain together. The lesson lives in the LMS, the collaboration happens in a shared document, the reflection gets recorded…
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Exploratory Research for a State Social Studies Resource Website
A UX exploration phase for a state social studies resource website that combined competitive analysis with three co-design methods to produce a feature framework and prototype connecting historical archives with classroom instruction.…
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Applying User Research Principles to Improve Online K-12 Professional Development
A UX research project that traced a spike in Canvas help tickets to platform-wide quality issues rather than onboarding, leading to a two-tiered course framework built around two distinct educator personas.
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Calm Technology in Educational Settings
Walk into most classrooms that have gone through a recent technology initiative, and you will notice something familiar. There are interactive whiteboards requesting firmware updates, tablets pinging with notifications, an LMS that…
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“Welcome to UX for Edu” Video Series
This resource was originally created as part of a small project about a year ago. While the full project was never implemented, these videos still offer valuable insights for educators, instructional designers,…
