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Rapid Contextual Design A How-To Guide to Key Techniques for User-Centered Design

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ISBN-10: 0123540518

ISBN-13: 9780123540515

Edition: 2005

Authors: Jessamyn Burns Wendell, Karen Holtzblatt, Shelley Wood

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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. Rapid CD is a hands-on guide for anyone who needs practical guidance on how to use the Contextual Design process and adapt it to tactical projects with tight timelines and resources. Rapid Contextual Design provides detailed suggestions on structuring the project and customer interviews, conducting interviews, and running interpretation sessions. The handbook walks you…    
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Book details

List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Publication date: 12/14/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 8.75" wide x 11.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English

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
Supply Checklist
Index