TY - GEN
T1 - Architect, developer, designer
T2 - 32nd Annual International Conference on the Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2014
AU - Lauer, Claire
AU - Brumberger, Eva
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright 2014 ACM.
PY - 2014/9/27
Y1 - 2014/9/27
N2 - User Experience is a quickly evolving, interdisciplinary field that combines psychology, communication, social science, design, technology, and other specialized knowledge areas in an attempt to better understand how users interact with information products and how practitioners can better design such products. However, User Experience/Information Architect jobs commonly ask for applicants whose degrees are in technical disciplines, such as computer science, rather than technical communication. Industry isn't always aware of the unique qualifications that non-computer science majors can bring to these often technology-intensive jobs. This poster will present the results of an investigation of over 1000 "user experience" job ads, collected in the fall of 2013, to identify the job titles, educational and experience requirements, technological competencies, and soft qualifications sought by user experience/information architect jobs. The data can help us better understand the anatomy of this emerging field and, in turn, articulate the value-added of graduates from technical communication and related programs.
AB - User Experience is a quickly evolving, interdisciplinary field that combines psychology, communication, social science, design, technology, and other specialized knowledge areas in an attempt to better understand how users interact with information products and how practitioners can better design such products. However, User Experience/Information Architect jobs commonly ask for applicants whose degrees are in technical disciplines, such as computer science, rather than technical communication. Industry isn't always aware of the unique qualifications that non-computer science majors can bring to these often technology-intensive jobs. This poster will present the results of an investigation of over 1000 "user experience" job ads, collected in the fall of 2013, to identify the job titles, educational and experience requirements, technological competencies, and soft qualifications sought by user experience/information architect jobs. The data can help us better understand the anatomy of this emerging field and, in turn, articulate the value-added of graduates from technical communication and related programs.
KW - Designer
KW - Front-end developer
KW - Graduates
KW - Industry
KW - Information architect
KW - Job advertisements
KW - UX
KW - User experience
KW - User interface
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U2 - 10.1145/2666216.2666234
DO - 10.1145/2666216.2666234
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84921777944
T3 - SIGDOC 2014 - Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International Conference on the Design of Communication
BT - SIGDOC 2014 - Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International Conference on the Design of Communication
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 27 September 2014 through 28 September 2014
ER -