1st Edition

Teaching User Experience A Process Approach

Edited By Heather Turner, Emma Rose Copyright 2026
332 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

332 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

332 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Outlining a process approach, this book offers a theoretical and pedagogical framework for how to teach user experience (UX) from a technical and professional communication (TPC) perspective. Recognizing that pedagogy is local to an institution, context, and community, the collection includes teaching cases and stories that demonstrate how instructors in TPC uniquely approach the complexity of... Read more

Section I: A Process Approach

1. A Designerly Way of Learning  

Emma J. Rose and Heather Noel Turner

2. From Knowing to Doing: Designerly Knowledges Embedded in User Experience Processes  

Heather Noel Turner and Emma J. Rose

3. Doing Differently: Designerly Approaches in Technical and Professional Communication  

Emma J. Rose and Heather Noel Turner

4. A Case for Black User Experience Design  

Donnie Johnson Sackey

5. User Experience Pedagogy Perspectives from Industry  

Emma J. Rose, Josephine Walwema, and Heather Noel Turner

Section II: Breadth

6. Teaching Content Design for Inclusivity: A User Experience Writing Curriculum  

Alison Cardinal

7. Thinking with Owls: Adding a Value-Sensitive Design Intervention to Iterate Cross-Species Interface Empathy and Definition  

Andrew Mara

8. Making Inroads: Using the User Experience Process in Technical and Professional Communication Service Course Design to Incorporate Accessibility and Access  

Danielle Mollie Stambler

9. Teaching Accessibility Through User Experience Design  

Sherena Huntsman

Section III: Depth

10. Cultivating Empathy in User Experience Students: Creating an Instructional Heuristic of Care, Sensibility, and Advocacy  

Jason Tham

11. Empathizing and Defining Issues with Testimonios: A Case Study on the Impact of Teaching User Experience Through a Social Justice Lens  

Nora K. Rivera

12. Critical Empathy and Student User Experience Dispositions  

Soyeon Lee

13. Teaching the Teardown: Reverse Engineering the User Experience Process  

Justin Lewis

14. Using Nudge Theory to Evaluate and Iterate Designs to Support User Decision Making  

Quan Zhou

15. Community-Engaged User Experience: Starting with Empathy  

Fernando Sánchez

16. Moving Beyond the Problem of Rain: Teaching User Experience Design to Engineering Students in the Arabian Gulf  

Naqaa Abbas, Amy Hodges, and Mary Queen

17. Iteration and Implementation: Addressing Period Poverty on Campus  

Emma J. Rose, Brandy Garcia, and Maria Babko

18. User Experience and Technical and Professional Communication Looking Forward  

Heather Noel Turner and Emma J. Rose

Biography

Heather Noel Turner is an associate professor in the Department of English at Santa Clara University, USA.

Emma J. Rose is a professor in the Department of Culture, Arts, & Communication at the University of Washington Tacoma, USA.

“If you teach user experience (UX), you need this book. You’ll appreciate the practical advice for guiding students to grow as agents of design change. The fascinating teaching cases offer many actionable ideas for taking a socially just and rhetorically sensitive approach to design practice.”

Karen A. Schriver, author of Dynamics of Document Design: Creating Texts for Readers

“Technical communication (TC) teachers and administrators: You need this book! Build your confidence about using user experience (UX) to frame a TC project. Adapt one or more of the 14 engaging, inspiring, and very practical case studies to bring UX into your TC courses.

Teaching User Experience is a must to have, read, and use.”

Janice (Ginny) Redish, author of Letting Go of the WordsWriting Web Content that Works