Jason Tham
@jasontham.bsky.social
👋 Associate professor at Texas Tech University
⭐️ UX + design thinking + shared leadership
📔 New book: https://linktr.ee/jason.tham
⭐️ UX + design thinking + shared leadership
📔 New book: https://linktr.ee/jason.tham
Wednesday is for Faculty Mentor Orientation.
October 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Wednesday is for Faculty Mentor Orientation.
Today's bad UX writing example is brought to you by a job recommendation submission portal. Who doesn't love a double negative question?
September 21, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Today's bad UX writing example is brought to you by a job recommendation submission portal. Who doesn't love a double negative question?
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." - Apple opened the 2025 event with a note from Steve Jobs, setting a tone for product experience from a functional perspective.
September 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." - Apple opened the 2025 event with a note from Steve Jobs, setting a tone for product experience from a functional perspective.
Learning from seasoned experts in information design. jasontham.com/2025/08/02/l...
Learning from Information Design Experts
As someone who teaches technical communication, I am interested in the stories behind the frameworks, methods, and best practices of information design. How did we get here? Who figured out what wo…
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August 3, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Learning from seasoned experts in information design. jasontham.com/2025/08/02/l...
Wednesday is for serving as dean’s rep to a media and comm PhD candidate defense. Learning all the things!
June 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Wednesday is for serving as dean’s rep to a media and comm PhD candidate defense. Learning all the things!
Design thinking has real potential for social change, but we need to be honest about the biases baked into the methodology. Small shifts in how we approach empathy, problem definition, and testing can make a big difference. jasontham.com/2025/06/09/w...
Why Design Thinking Needs a Social Justice Lens, and Vice Versa
Reflecting on design thinking’s potential for social change, emphasizing the need for critical awareness, community engagement, and addressing power dynamics to enhance its effectiveness in e…
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June 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Design thinking has real potential for social change, but we need to be honest about the biases baked into the methodology. Small shifts in how we approach empathy, problem definition, and testing can make a big difference. jasontham.com/2025/06/09/w...
Book manuscript submitted. Cheers to official summertime!
June 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Book manuscript submitted. Cheers to official summertime!
Sano-Franchini asks us what if we tell it like it is—AI systems (LLMs) don’t “think” or “read” but instead “process” data; they don’t “hallucinate” but produce “inaccuracy” in output.
May 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Sano-Franchini asks us what if we tell it like it is—AI systems (LLMs) don’t “think” or “read” but instead “process” data; they don’t “hallucinate” but produce “inaccuracy” in output.
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Some snapshots from the keynote lunch, featuring @jasontham.bsky.social's presentation, "Whose Time is it Anyway? Writing, Labor, and the Illusion of Efficiency." More photos to come!
May 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Some snapshots from the keynote lunch, featuring @jasontham.bsky.social's presentation, "Whose Time is it Anyway? Writing, Labor, and the Illusion of Efficiency." More photos to come!
Friday morning is for learning with IBM.
April 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Friday morning is for learning with IBM.
Questions from the DRC panel that could benefit from continued discussion:
- what could transformative graduate collaboration & mentorship look like in the future?
- what skills are transferable and applicable to both Fellows & Grad Associates’ future careers?
- what do you want to see in DRC?
#4C25
- what could transformative graduate collaboration & mentorship look like in the future?
- what skills are transferable and applicable to both Fellows & Grad Associates’ future careers?
- what do you want to see in DRC?
#4C25
April 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Questions from the DRC panel that could benefit from continued discussion:
- what could transformative graduate collaboration & mentorship look like in the future?
- what skills are transferable and applicable to both Fellows & Grad Associates’ future careers?
- what do you want to see in DRC?
#4C25
- what could transformative graduate collaboration & mentorship look like in the future?
- what skills are transferable and applicable to both Fellows & Grad Associates’ future careers?
- what do you want to see in DRC?
#4C25
Naomi Silver shared about the origin story of the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative, the digital publishing space and scholarly network that is still going strong today. #4C25
April 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Naomi Silver shared about the origin story of the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative, the digital publishing space and scholarly network that is still going strong today. #4C25
Something we all could learn from Tracy Smith who wrote her book, To Free the Captives, “by ears.” We all need to listen more, listen more closely, and listen more closely with good intentions.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706866...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706866...
To Free the Captives by Tracy K. Smith: 9780593467985 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A TIME AND WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A stunning personal manifesto on memory, family, and history that explores how we in America...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
April 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Something we all could learn from Tracy Smith who wrote her book, To Free the Captives, “by ears.” We all need to listen more, listen more closely, and listen more closely with good intentions.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706866...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706866...
Sitting in a session on student recruitment, retention, & career readiness… one thing I wished we spent some time considering is relationship building. When people are connected, they’re more likely to enroll, stay, & go on to do things they enjoy. But we often overlook that relational piece. #4C25
April 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Sitting in a session on student recruitment, retention, & career readiness… one thing I wished we spent some time considering is relationship building. When people are connected, they’re more likely to enroll, stay, & go on to do things they enjoy. But we often overlook that relational piece. #4C25
Implications of AI for writing programs
• People stretched thin #deadlines
• The benefits are accruing, and outweighing the cost
• It's hard to stop using it #dependency
• Workplace writers are concerned about those in the next generation: how are people going to learn this job in the future? #4C25
• People stretched thin #deadlines
• The benefits are accruing, and outweighing the cost
• It's hard to stop using it #dependency
• Workplace writers are concerned about those in the next generation: how are people going to learn this job in the future? #4C25
April 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Implications of AI for writing programs
• People stretched thin #deadlines
• The benefits are accruing, and outweighing the cost
• It's hard to stop using it #dependency
• Workplace writers are concerned about those in the next generation: how are people going to learn this job in the future? #4C25
• People stretched thin #deadlines
• The benefits are accruing, and outweighing the cost
• It's hard to stop using it #dependency
• Workplace writers are concerned about those in the next generation: how are people going to learn this job in the future? #4C25
Factors influencing the use of AI tools, according to Annette Vee in #A9:
- Prior media histories (personal, pop-cultural)
- Other people’s use of AI (coworkers, teachers)
- Concerns about what AI is doing to them (dependency, deskilling)
- Future of the profession (shifting expectations)
#4C25
- Prior media histories (personal, pop-cultural)
- Other people’s use of AI (coworkers, teachers)
- Concerns about what AI is doing to them (dependency, deskilling)
- Future of the profession (shifting expectations)
#4C25
April 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Not gonna lie, seeing a fellow digital rhetorician, computers-and-writing scholar, and technical communication teacher at the helm of CCCC is inspiring as hell. Way to go, Jennifer! #4C25
April 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Not gonna lie, seeing a fellow digital rhetorician, computers-and-writing scholar, and technical communication teacher at the helm of CCCC is inspiring as hell. Way to go, Jennifer! #4C25
Meeting authors & contributors of groundbreaking work in our field was a highlight of those early conference experiences, in the 1970s! — Anne Ruggles Gere, recipient of the 2025 CCCC Exemplar Award #4C25
April 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Meeting authors & contributors of groundbreaking work in our field was a highlight of those early conference experiences, in the 1970s! — Anne Ruggles Gere, recipient of the 2025 CCCC Exemplar Award #4C25