Teaching UX: designing programs to train the next generation of UX experts

  • Authors:

  • Guiseppe Getto;Liza Potts;Michael J. Salvo;Kathie Gossett

  • Affiliations:

  • East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA;Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, USA;Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA;Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 31st ACM international conference on Design of communication
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

This experience report describes core values and approaches to teaching and developing programs in User Experience (UX). What binds these values and approaches together is a deep engagement with ongoing trends and best practices in the field of UX over the past several decades. Examples offered are contextually embedded, yet each expression is consistent with underlying core competencies gleaned from a ten-plus year history of teaching and practicing UX design, information architecture and information design, visual rhetoric, ethics, and usability in the technical communication classroom. The best practices we articulate below are applicable in the context of corporate training, team building and preparation, and consulting, in addition to academic contexts.