Open Role: Lead Product Designer at Playlab AI
Insights from the hiring manager; upcoming networking event
Featured Open Role
Playlab AI is hiring a lead Product Designer. Yusuf Ahmad, Co-founder, is the hiring manager and answered some key questions about the role.
Why might a designer love to join this team?
A Big Challenge: Designing tools that empower people as designers is hard. Especially when designing to make it easy for beginners, enabling a wide range of creation, and making complex things possible.
Immediate impact: We have a global community of educators and system leaders using our tools to advance teaching and learning.
What are two or three qualities in a designer that float to the top of your list?
Deep user empathy
Ability to move between user needs, product strategy, and detailed product design
A creative, artistic flair: we want this to be beautiful :)
Two or three portfolio tips? What matters to you in particular?
Highlight any work on creative tools (this is a different kind of challenge than conventional apps where user agency is much more constrained).
Show us how and when you’ve designed something that empowers others to create - especially people who might not see themselves as creators.
See the full job description to apply.
💼 See the recent Round-up List of open UX roles in EdTech.
Networking Event
🤝 We are teaming up with NYEdTech Meetup to bring you a virtual event that brings together thought leaders in EdTech and UX!
February 26, 2024
7:00-8:00PM EST
Micro-talks from the UX of EdTech community will include:
Nicole Gallardo
Chief Design Officer at Founders Who UX
"Solving EdTech problems with design"
Sarah Mondestin
UX Writer and Researcher (and former principal and teacher)
"Shifting from Education to EdTech"
There will be time for discussion and networking in breakouts as well.
📌 RSVP for the event.
Seeing the Systems in EdTech
From Alicia Quan:
“Joshua Singer is one of my favorite writers to follow when it comes to UX practice and EdTech. He thinks deeply and I am always challenged by his thoughtful articles.
With all of the content that gets circulated around daily, it is a significant feat to write something that causes people to keep thinking about it days (or months) later. That's what usually happens for me with Josh's articles.
UX of EdTech had the privilege to publish his words on the concept of "pace layers" which describes how complex systems like buildings, software, and education are composed of interconnected layers that change at different speeds.”
→ Seeing the Systems in EdTech
How ‘pace layers’ can help designers understand complex systems
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