User experience as participatory health communication pedagogy

Abstract

This experience report offers examples of how health communication educators can employ UX design principles and practices to enhance student learning. More specifically, this report proposes a participatory health communication pedagogy that can help teachers leverage UX principles to meaningfully incorporate students' experiences into the classroom as both content creators and content users. Drawing from two health communication courses as case studies, we demonstrate how a participatory health communication pedagogy can help educators become innovative, UX practitioners who center students' learning experiences as they design content for health and medical contexts.