Computing education has growing inclusion and equity challenges (e.g. exclusionary online learning experiences, biased assessments, inadequate student feedback mechanisms). Many groups experience minoritization in computing education, including students who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), women, non-binary students, transfer…

Organizations interested in increasing their user experience (UX) capacity lack the tools they need to know how to do so. This dissertation addresses this challenge via three major research efforts: 1) the creation of User Data Spectrum theory and a User Data Spectrum survey for helping organizations better invest resources to grow their UX…