Teaching design through micro-assignments: Experience-based cases towards training future design professionals

Derek G. Ross; Dan Card; Goeff Gimse

doi:10.1145/3380851.3416745

Teaching design through micro-assignments: Experience-based cases towards training future design professionals

Derek G. Ross, Dan Card, Goeff Gimse

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Abstract

This paper considers three brief experience reports on teaching design in both academia and industry with an eye towards training future design professionals. We focus on production-based micro-assignments: small, low-stakes pieces of work that serve broader goals and encourage adaptive thinking, arguing that low-stakes projects assigned either in the classroom or in the workplace for training help future designers better prepare themselves for complex, multimodal workplaces and careers. The microprojects we consider here include examples from a Document Design classroom, teaching structured authoring in DITA, and the value of microtrainings in the workplace.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	SIGDOC 2020 - Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450375252
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3380851.3416745
State	Published - Oct 3 2020
Event	38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2020 - Denton, Virtual, United States Duration: Oct 5 2020 → Oct 9 2020

Publication series

Name	SIGDOC 2020 - Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

Conference

Conference	38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2020
Country	United States
City	Denton, Virtual
Period	10/5/20 → 10/9/20

Keywords

DITA
Document design
Microtraining
Multimodal workplace

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Ross, D. G., Card, D., & Gimse, G. (2020). Teaching design through micro-assignments: Experience-based cases towards training future design professionals. In SIGDOC 2020 - Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication [3416745] (SIGDOC 2020 - Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3380851.3416745

Teaching design through micro-assignments : Experience-based cases towards training future design professionals. / Ross, Derek G.; Card, Dan; Gimse, Goeff.

SIGDOC 2020 - Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2020. 3416745 (SIGDOC 2020 - Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Ross, DG, Card, D & Gimse, G 2020, Teaching design through micro-assignments: Experience-based cases towards training future design professionals. in SIGDOC 2020 - Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication., 3416745, SIGDOC 2020 - Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2020, Denton, Virtual, United States, 10/5/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3380851.3416745

Ross DG, Card D, Gimse G. Teaching design through micro-assignments: Experience-based cases towards training future design professionals. In SIGDOC 2020 - Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2020. 3416745. (SIGDOC 2020 - Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication). https://doi.org/10.1145/3380851.3416745

Ross, Derek G. ; Card, Dan ; Gimse, Goeff. / Teaching design through micro-assignments : Experience-based cases towards training future design professionals. SIGDOC 2020 - Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2020. (SIGDOC 2020 - Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication).

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