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Why UX Pedagogy?

We teach user experience at the college level and are developing evidence-based teaching practices for UX. We’re researching existing teaching practices, gathering teaching materials, and creating community. Want to join us?

What is User Experience?

Based on Buley (2013), we define UX as:

      • a professional practice: a set of methods and techniques for researching what users want and need, and to design products and services for them
      • an outcome: the overall effect created by the interactions and perceptions that someone has when using a product or service
      • interdisciplinary: includes visual design, content strategy, writing, business analysis, product management, project management, analytics, and engineering.

Why social justice?

While UX can be a force for good, UX has a problem it’s not neutral. Design has a history of oppression that continues today. Who gets centered in design and who gets to design has material impacts on people’s everyday lives. Part of our work in this project is to interrogate existing UX practices through a social justice and anti-racist lens to reject the status quo and work towards more equitable and accountable design education and practice.

News

CFP: UX Pedagogy: Stories and Practices from the TPC Classroom for Communication Design Quarterly

Introduction The goal of this special issue is to highlight the growing focus on teaching user experience (UX) in technical and professional courses and programs. We are soliciting articles for a special issue of Communication Design Quarterly that present stories from the classroom to create a shared understanding of the breadth and diversity of how …

SIGDOC 2022 Workshop: The Pedagogy of UX: Designing UX Assignments within a Community of Practice

In October 2022, Drs Turner and Rose conducted an in-person workshop on Pedagogy of UX: Designing UX Assignments within a Community of Practice for the 2022 ACM SIGDOC conference in Boston, MA. The workshop discussed the findings from Drs Turner and Rose’s published scholarship interviewing and surveying UX instructors on how they teach UX. They invited the …