Become an expert in testing, understanding and communicating the user experience. You'll take technical communication courses as well as classes in human systems engineering and graphic information technology.

 

The user experience concentration is designed to provide technical communication majors with an interdisciplinary foundation in communication, research and design that is central to the rapidly growing area of user experience. The UX concentration provides students with a conceptual understanding and applied skills in methods of gathering user information, analyzing data and communicating research findings to stakeholders. Although its disciplinary home and primary focus is technical communication, the concentration includes courses from human systems engineering and graphic information technology in order to provide students with the multiple perspectives and complementary skills needed for UX work.

Technical communicators with expertise in user experience have numerous career opportunities in growth areas such as UX research, user-centered design, information design, interaction design, information architecture, content strategy and usability analysis.