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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Computer File, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Karen Holtzblatt; Jessamyn Burns Wendell; Shelley Wood |
ISBN: | 0123540518 9780123540515 |
OCLC Number: | 56755725 |
Description: | xvii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction -- Planning Your Rapid CD Project -- Planning Your Contextual Interviews -- The Contextual Inquiry Interview -- Contextual Interview Interpretation Session -- Work Modeling -- Building an Affinity Diagram -- Consolidated Sequence Models -- Using Contextual Data to Write Personas -- Walking the Affinity and Consolidated Sequences -- Visioning a New Way to Work -- Storyboarding -- Testing with Paper Prototypes -- Paper Prototype Interviews -- Rapid CD and Other Methodologies -- Issues of Organizational Adoption -- Appendix 1: Supply Checklist -- Index. |
Series Title: | Morgan Kaufmann series in interactive technologies. |
Responsibility: | Karen Holtzblatt, Jessamyn Burns Wendell, Shelley Wood. |
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"Rapid Contextual Design is a timely, relevant book for technical communicators. Whether you are a seasoned usability professional or a novice trying to develop your awareness of user-centered design, you should add this title to your bookshelf." -Eddie VanArsdall, Technical Communication"Here are those little gems of advice that a skilled mentor who peered over your shoulder would tell you. 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 Design"The new how-to guide boosts the value of the original Contextual Design book by transforming a design method into pragmatic advices of how to run a Contextual Design project in your own environment." --Joerg Beringer, Director, Strategic Product Design, SAP-AG"A wise guide to interface design dos and don'ts, from people with experience. They create a new language for thinking about design processes, combining a compelling structured process with sufficient freedom for innovative excursions." --Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland"Rapid Contextual Design provides a further step in innovation by providing detailed, practical advice on how to conduct successful research projects and to fit the project to the need. 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 Read more...

