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home - easygenerator Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools: Home HUGIN EXPERT - Advanced Decision Support using Bayesian Networks and Influence Diagrams How To Design Great EdTech Tools The 3-day LeanUX NYC event held April 11-13 at NYU was a mix of hands-on workshops and short presentations, all led by folks from different industries who have successfully applied lean and agile principles to designing better UX experiences. (Particularly impressive was the diverse mix of men and women presenting.) Many startups religiously follow lean advice from the likes of Eric Ries (Lean Startup), Steve Blank (Customer Development), and others that focus on continuous cycles of building, measuring, and learning through testing assumptions, validating learning, and building MVPs (Minimally Viable Products). But edtech companies are idiosyncratic. Much of traditional education technology has been clunky, difficult to use, and often unable to address the problems of most concern to educators. One aspect of understanding client needs is to test assumptions-- even if members of the team are prototypical users (former teachers, administrators, etc.).

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