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• Title : Rapid Contextual Design: A How-to Guide to Key Techniques for User-Centered Design (Interactive Technologies)
• Author : Karen Holtzblatt
• Rating : 4.73 (566 Vote)
• Publish : 2016-4-2
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 320 Pages
• Asin : 0123540518
• Language : English

– Eddie VanArsdall, Technical CommunicationHere are those little gems of advice that a skilled mentor who peered over your shoulder would tell you. My team welcomes these new advances and the flexibility they will provide when we conduct future

– Eddie VanArsdall, Technical CommunicationHere are those little gems of advice that a skilled mentor who peered over your shoulder would tell you. My team welcomes these new advances and the flexibility they will provide when we conduct future projects using this method.--Terry Austin, User Experience Group Manager, Microsoft . Rapid Contextual Design is a timely, relevant book for technical communicators. If you lack such a mentor, this book is the next best thing, explaining just what you need to do in a straightforward, easy to read, easy to understand manner.--Don Norman, Nielsen Norman group, Prof., Northwestern University,Author of Emotional DesignThe new how-to guide

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*Covers the entire scope of a project, from deciding on the number and type of interviews, to interview set up and analyzing collected data. Is it impossible to schedule enough time to include users in your design process? Is it difficult to incorporate elaborate user-centered design techniques into your own standard design practices? Do the resources needed seem overwhelming? This handbook introduces Rapid CD, a fast-paced, adaptive form of Contextual Design. The handbook walks you step-by-step through organizing the data so you can see your key issues, along with visioning new solutions, storyboarding to work out the details, and paper prototype interviewing to iterate the designall with as little as a two-person team with only a few weeks to spare! *Includes real project examples with actual customer data that illustrate how a CD project actually works. *Shows how to use consolidated data to define a design within tight time frames with examples of visions, storyboards, and paper prototypes. *Introduces CDTools™, the first application designed to support customer-centered design.. *Provides examples of how-to write affinity notes and affinity labels, build an affinity diagram, and step-by-step instructions for consolidating sequence models. Sample project schedules are also included for a variety of different types of pro

Karen Holtzblatt developed the Contextual Inquiry field data gathering technique that forms the core of Contextual Design and is now taught and used world-wide.

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Karen Holtzblatt is a co-founder of InContext Enterprises, Inc., a firm that works with companies, coaching teams to design products, product strategies, and information systems from customer data