This summer we had an incredibly successful annual conference in Milwaukee, WI. During the conference, SIGDOC leadership engaged the community in a series of listening sessions. We wanted to hear from attendees and SIGDOC members about how the organization is
CDQ 4-3 is live!
We are happy to announce the latest issue of Communication Design Quarterly is now out: Re-Considering the Nature of Value in Communication Design by Kirk St.Amant Special section introduction: Examining the Context of Technical Information Use by Lena-Maria Öberg What is an
CDQ 4.2B now available
The latest issue of Communication Design Quarterly is now available. In this issue are the following: Notes from the SIG by Liza Potts Editor’s Introduction: Aspects of Awareness: Considerations for Social Media Use in the Modern Context by Kirk St.Amant
CDQ 4-1 Now Available
The latest issue of Communication Design Quarterly is now available. This issue contains “Introduction to the special issue Cultural Considerations for Communication Design: Integrating Ideas of Culture, Communication, and Context into User Experience Design” by Kirk St.Amant “The Communication Design of WeChat: Ideological as Well as Technical
Diana Award Recipient
The Diana award is named after Diana Patterson, past President of SIGDOC for three terms. The award is given to an organization, institution, or business for their long-term contribution to the field of communication design. Since 2005, Diana awards have
CDQ 3-4
The latest issue of Communication Design Quarterly is now available. This issue contains “Charting an Emerging Field: The Rhetorics of Health and Medicine and Its Importance in Communication Design” by Lisa Meloncon and Erin A. Frost “Light Lies: How Glass Speaks” by Kathleen Connellan, Damien
CDQ 3-3
The latest issue of Communication Design Quarterly is now available. This issue contains “Evaluating The Relevance of eBooks to Corporate Communication” by Rebecca Walton and David Hailey “Testing the Waters: Local Users, Sea Level Rise, and the Productive Usability of Interactive Geovisualizations” by Daniel Richards
Call for Applications: Editor-in-Chief of CDQ
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Design of Communication (SIGDOC) is seeking an editor-in-chief and institutional home for its peer-reviewed scholarly publication Communication Design Quarterly (CDQ). Overview of CDQ Communication Design Quarterly is published four times a year (Winter,
CDQ 3-2
The latest issue of Communication Design Quarterly is now available. This issue contains work from JoAnn Hackos, David Hailey, Tharon Howard, Jan Spyridakis, Kirk St.Amant, Brian McNely, and Rudy McDaniel. It also contains an interview with Janice Redish conducted by
Submiting a Proposal for SIGDOC 2015 in Limerick, Ireland

This year we have created videos to help walk participants through the submission process: Submitting a proposal for SIGDOC 2015 Important Dates for the 2015 Conference This year the SIGDOC conference team has developed a new conference proposal design, with different