The future of user experience education

Peer, Andrea Jo

doi:10.1145/3095710

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“…1 The issue of what an educational curricula for human-computer interaction (HCI) and UXD should embrace have comprehensively been in focus and discussed for many years not least by the SIGCHI education project (SIGCHI, 2014), the living HCI curriculum initiative (Churchill et al, 2013(Churchill et al, , 2014(Churchill et al, , 2016, and in workshops all over the globe (e.g., Peters et al, 2016;St-Cyr et al, 2019;MacDonald et al, 2021). It is clear that a program in UXD requires balancing multiple learning objectives; preparing future UX designers for a professional career as well as augmenting students' ability to pursue advanced level and graduate studies, which is discussed by, for example, Peer (2017).…”

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The User Experience Design Program: Applying Situated and Embodied Cognition Together With Reflective Teaching

Alenljung

Nalin

Rambusch

2022

Front. Comput. Sci.

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The education of students to become competent user experience designers is a delicate matter as students need to obtain a multitude of knowledge, skills, and judgmental abilities. In this paper, our effort to manage this multiplicity in a bachelor's program in user experience design is shared along with our experiences and teaching practices influenced by theories of situated and embodied cognition together with reflective teaching. The program was followed up through interviews with eight alumni and a company representative that employs user experience designers. The results show that the program overall works well, although some of the identified issues need to be addressed in the future. The interpretation is that our program curricula and teaching practices are fruitful, which hopefully can contribute to thoughts and discussions for other teachers in the field of user experience design and human-computer interaction.

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