"That usability course"

Communication Design Quarterly May 2014

Quan Zhou

Abstract

The approach to usability adopted by many technical communication programs often conceptually separates usability from other subject matter areas and places it at the tail-end of a project. Such an approach creates conceptual barriers with regard to how usability fits in a design project. As a result, students do not engage in the critical work of designing and testing iteratively in the formative phase of a product. We should broaden usability into user experience, enable students to see user experience as an iterative and agile process, and provide in-depth knowledge of user research methods.

Journal: Communication Design Quarterly
Published: 2014-05-01
DOI: 10.1145/2644448.2644454
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Topics: empirical research multimodality technical communication

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