• Time Required
• 10–12 hours, including reading time

Welcome to Week Six of the course. This week, we finish up work on the User Documentation Revision & Memo Assignment. To ensure that you earn a Complete on your work, pay attention to the Criteria, which tell you exactly what I will look for in your submissions.

Next week we will begin work on the Group Recommendation Report by sharing the topics from your User Documentation Revisions and starting the process of writing a proposal. Next week also marks the middle of the semester, so it’s a good opportunity for you to aim to finish any outstanding work from the first half of the term.

Holidays & Events This Week

• Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from through October 15.
• Pitru Paksha, a Hindu celebration of ancestors, lasts 16 days, ending on Wednesday, October 2.
• Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti, an Indian celebration of the birthday of Gandhi, takes place Wednesday October 2.
• Rosh Hashanah, the celebration of the Jewish New Year, begins at sunset on Wednesday, October 2 and lasts through sundown on Friday, October 4.
• Navratri, a Hindu holiday honoring the goddess Durga, begins Thursday, October 3 and lasts through Saturday, October 12.
• Fast of Gedalia, a Jewish holiday that marks the assassination of Gedalia, takes place Sunday, October 6.

If you observe these holidays and need me to adjust your due dates, send me a message in Canvas.

Objectives for this Module

After completing this week’s activities, you address the following course objectives:

• Analyze the context; determine appropriate audiences for or users of planned communications; assess needs of global audiences and people with disabilities. [CLO 2]
• Practice workplace genres related to specific fields (e.g., proposals, instructions, correspondence, reports, technical specifications and slide decks); illustrate how genre conventions can serve as heuristics and as principles of arrangement [CLO 3]
• Design and evaluate strategies for testing the usability and overall effectiveness of documents [CLO 5]
• Illustrate the ethical and human implications of research findings and workplace products on diverse audiences [CLO 6]

Activities to Complete

📚 To Read This Week

• Modify Your Design for Global Audiences: Cross-Cultural UX Design
• Why Cross Cultural Design Really Matters
• 3 Real-Life Examples of Cultural Misunderstandings in Business
• Review readings from previous weeks as needed.

📝 To Do This Week

• Finish work on the second Major Project, User Documentation Revision & Reflection Memo, which has a Target Due Date of Friday, September 29. Use these resources:
  • User Documentation Revision & Reflection Memo Criteria
  • User Documentation Revision & Memo Assignment
  • UX Project Submission Wrapper
  • Choose one of the following:
    • User Documentation Revision & Reflection Memo Self-Check (if you want to check your project yourself)
    • User Documentation Revision & Reflection Memo Self-Check with AI (if you want AI to help you confirm that you have met the criteria)
• Try out strategies from the course by submitting these activities:
  • Try-It #11: Testing the Usability of a Webpage
  • Try-It #12: Improving the Usability of an Email Message

💬 To Ask Questions (Optional)

• Optional ways to discuss class issues:
  • Post public questions in the General Q&A Discussion in Canvas if it can be shared with the class.
    
  • If you have a private question, send me a message with the Canvas Inbox.
  • Ask a question or make a suggestion anonymously with the Anonymous Questions & Suggestions form.

 

📓 To Check-In This Week

• Fill out the Week 6 Check-In Survey to let me know how you are doing in the course.

 

 

Photo credit: Research process by Raul Pacheco-Vega on Flickr, used under a CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0 license.