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Teaching UxD: You Can't Go Home Again

SIGDOC 2013

Michael SalvoPurdue Universitysalvo@purdue.edu

Teaching UxD: You Can't Go Home Again

SIGDOC 2013

Michael SalvoPurdue Universitysalvo@purdue.edu

is not (yet?)

Re/mix

Does the history of usability research lead us to

a new trans-disciplinary construction,

Or is UX comfortable (at home) as an area

within web design, part of technical

communication, or something new?

How might UX emerge as a new professional

and intellectual identity?

What new homesteading is possible?

That is, how do we make new habitués?

And do we have to leave fallow the homesteads

that have nurtured us?

What was it about our disciplinary home?

Comfort?

Stability?

Predictability?

Scalability?

If we leave…

When we leave

Will we want to go home again?

Thomas Wolfe said we can’t.

Familial

Familiar

(painfully similar)

University of Dundee

Design Ethnography

Trained Anthropologists

From the College of Computing

to

Duncan of Jordanstone

School of Architecture and Design

Does the history of usability research lead us to

a new trans-disciplinary construction,

Or is UX comfortable (at home) as an area

within web design, part of technical

communication, or something new?

How might UX emerge as a new professional

and intellectual identity?

Teaching UxD: You Can't Go Home Again

SIGDOC 2013

Michael SalvoPurdue Universitysalvo@purdue.edu