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John Bowie

As the Director of User Experience Design at Edmentum, John Bowie’s job is to make our customers’ jobs easier. Before joining Edmentum in 2012, John led user experience design teams at several forward-thinking companies, including HP, GE, and Deloitte. He is the co-author of three books and holds B.A. degrees in biology and English from Indiana University.

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Did a Teacher Design This? Our Commitment to Simple Technology in Exact Path

Striving to design simple technology that saves educators time and provides engaging student experiences is a never-ending quest at Edmentum.

How Designing Simple Technology Can Be Really Complicated

Over the past several years, Edmentum has solicited feedback from our customers through surveys, classroom visits, focus groups, and usability tests. A consistent theme emerged from this research: our products were too complicated for educators who simply did not have time to spend learning how to use all the features we provided to them. The company responded by forming an experience design team with the mission of simplifying our products and saving educators time.

Designing Programs that Put Educators First

Regardless of your goal, our goal is to design our programs so that you can achieve your goal as quickly and effortlessly as possible giving you more time to spend with your students.

Edmentum’s Commitment to Simple Technology: Designing the Student Experience

Using proven techniques of motivational design, Edmentum's user experience team focuses on crafting age-appropriate student experiences that meet the expectations of today’s digital natives.

Edmentum’s Exact Path and Our Commitment to Simple Technology

As we designed our new Individualized Learning Solution, we kept all four of our core commitments - to quality content, simple technology, actionable data, and customer success - top of mind.

[Edmentum’s Commitment] Actionable Data to Inform Instruction

What is the biggest challenge facing teachers today? We ask this question of educators whenever we observe a classroom, host a focus group, or conduct a market research survey. The answer we receive is almost always the same: teachers never have enough time. At Edmentum, designing products that save teachers time is a core part of our commitment to being educators’ most trusted partner in creating successful student outcomes. One of the ways we accomplish this is by focusing on providing educators with comprehensive data on their students’ activity, achievement, and growth – data that is actionable, visual, insightful, and secure.