by Guiseppe | Nov 9, 2026 | Education, User Research, UX
I’ve spent a considerable amount of my career teaching and practicing user experience (UX) research and design. One of the things I’ve learned is that understanding what UX is and knowing how to actually do it are two very different things. It’s...
by Guiseppe | Oct 27, 2026 | Education, Jobs, Technical Communication
Over the years, I’ve had a lot of people from different walks of life ask me what the academic job market in technical communication is like. Some are graduate students considering academic careers. Others are working professionals interested in teaching or...
by Guiseppe | Sep 30, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Education, Technical Communication
MIT recently released the final report of its Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training. The committee was originally asked to assess how students and instructors were using AI, identify innovations in teaching and assessment, and propose...
by Guiseppe | Jul 21, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Education
One of the challenges of talking about AI in technical communication right now is that the conversation is moving faster than our shared frameworks for understanding it. Over the past few years, generative AI has gone from something many of us were experimenting with...
by Guiseppe | Nov 3, 2025 | Education, Jobs, UX
The UX job market is evolving fast, and technical communication programs need to keep up. In my new article with Bremen Vance, UX Research, Management, and Design: What a Textual Analysis of UX Job Ads Means for Technical Communication, published in IEEE Transactions...
by Guiseppe | May 5, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Education, Technical Communication
In early 2025, a group of researchers secretly deployed a language model on Reddit’s r/ChangeMyView, a subreddit designed for thoughtful debate. Without users’ consent, the AI participated in over 1,000 discussions, crafting persuasive responses designed to mimic real...
