Stephanie Schnieder wrote Usable Pedagogies: Usability, Rhetoric, and Sociocultural Pedagogy in the Technical Writing Classroom, which seems in theme with the last couple entries. So I’ll start there. The article is essentially about how usability can support a sociocultural pedagogy. It presents ways in which usability can help with technical writing. Specifically, it suggests that [...]
Posts Tagged ‘User Centered Design’
Usable Pedagogies and Open Source
Posted: June 4, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Pedagogy, research, Review, School, User Centered Design
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Usability and Quesenbery
Posted: June 2, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: exams, PhD, Review, School, User Centered Design
Looking at two articles by Whitney Quesenbery: The Five Dimensions of Usability, which is chapter 4 from Content & complexity: information design in technical communication By Michael J. Albers, Beth Mazur. and What does Usability Mean: Looking Beyond ‘Ease of Use. The Five Dimensions of Usability are that something must be Effective, Efficient, Engaging, Error [...]
The Design of Everyday Things
Posted: January 26, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: PhD, Review, School, User Centered Design
I’ve just finished Donald A. Norman’s book The Design of Everyday Things. This is not my first time reading this book, nor my first time reviewing it. If you want to look at my original review, it’s here under the book’s original title, The Psychology of Everyday Things. Aside from how interesting it is to [...]
Technical communicator: author and extreme usability
Posted: March 2, 2009 in Readings, Review, School, UsabilityTags: exams, PhD, research, Review, School, User Centered Design
Though not yet finished my reading for this week, I wanted to blog about two of the articles I am reading. The first is by Jennifer Daryl Slack, David James Miller, and Jeffrey Doak. It’s called “Technical Communicator as Author: Meaning, Power, Authority.” The second is “Extreme Usability and Technical Communication” by Bradley Dilger. Both [...]
