Category: Workshop

“The Pedagogy of User Experience: Methods, Tools, Approaches” – Emma Rose and Heather Noel Turner

Full Paper Available in the ACM Digital Library Wednesday, 2-4:30 p.m. CDT: Prior registration required. Registrants have been sent Zoom link separately. Teaching UX is challenging due to its breadth of content areas (information architecture, user research, content strategy, visual design, interaction design), methodologies (human centered design, agile, participatory design), methods (heuristic evaluations, comparative assessments, …

“Structure your Site for Your Users: The Card Sorting Method” – Autumn Hood and Todd Luckey

Thursday, October 8, 2:30-5pm CDT. Prior registration required. Registrants have been sent Zoom link separately. Behind all the graphics, animations, color palettes, and font choices of your website lies a the foundational structure of the flows, menus, and content of your site. Any successful site or application must start with a foundation that strongly aligns …

“YAML as an Information Design Tool in the Classroom and the Workplace” – Maurice Moss

Friday, October 9, 10am–12pm CDT. Prior registration required. Registrants have been sent Zoom link separately. The conceptual overlap in the Venn diagram between the engineering and technical communication communities is rich with untapped opportunities. Code, for example, could be considered a dividing wall over which either side rarely traverses. One door through which both sides …