Design Thinking in Technical Communication: Solving Problems Through Making and Collaboration

ISBN-13: 9780367478216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 148 str.

Jason Tham

Opis

This book explicates the relationships between design thinking, critical making, and socially responsive technical communication. Essential for instructors, students, and practitioners of technical communication, it can be used as a supplemental text for graduate and undergraduate courses in usability and user-centered design and research.

Spis treści

1. Introducing Design Thinking (and Making) for Technical Communication  2. The Maker Movement and Its Influences on Technical Communication and Higher Learning: A Look at Three Makerspaces  3. Social Innovation: Designing Humane Technical Communication  4. Making and Design Thinking as Pedagogical Strategies for Social Advocacy  5. Cultivating Radical Collaboration in Technical Communication  6. Conclusion: Disrupting and Innovating in Technical Communication through Making and Design Thinking

O autorze

Jason Chew Kit Tham is an assistant professor of technical communication and rhetoric in the Department of English and co-director of the User Experience Research Lab at Texas Tech University.