ACM SIGDOC (Special Interest Group Design of Communication) will begin publishing Communication Design Quarterly Review (CDQR) in September 2012 with four issues per year. It seeks to be the premier informational source for industry, management, and academia in the multidisciplinary field of the design and communication of information, including technical communication, user experience, information architecture, and HCI. It will contain a mix of peer-reviewed articles, columns, experience reports, and interesting research results.

Contributions are invited in any of the following areas:

Peer-reviewed articles. Articles that cross discipline boundaries as they focus on the effective and efficient methods of designing and communicating information.

Experience reports. Experience reports are short articles about present project- or workplace-focused summaries of important technologies, techniques, or product processes.

Interesting research results. Short reports on interesting research or usability results that lack the rigor for a full article. For example, pilot studies, graduate student projects or papers, or corporate usability studies where full details can’t be released.

Communication Design Quarterly Review will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. For more information or submissions, contact the editors: Michael Albers (albersm@ecu.edu) or Liza Potts (lpotts@msu.edu).