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User-Centered Design Stories Real-World UCD Case Studies

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ISBN-10: 0123706084

ISBN-13: 9780123706089

Edition: 2007

Authors: Carol Righi, Janice James

List price: $75.95
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Intended for both the student and the practitioner, this is the first user-centered design casebook. It follows the Harvard Case study method, where the reader is placed in the role of the decision-maker in a real-life professional situation. In this book, the reader is asked to perform analysis of dozens of UCD work situations and propose solutions for the problem set. The problems posed in the cases cover a wide variety of key tasks and issues facing practitioners today, including those that are related to organizational/managerial topics, UCD methods and processes, and technical/ project issues. The benefit of the casebook and its organization is that it offers the new practitioner (as…    
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Book details

List price: $75.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Publication date: 6/5/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 7.52" wide x 9.25" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 2.398
Language: English

Janice James is Director of User Experience at Perficient and has more than 18 years of experience in the field of human factors, usability and user-centered design and development for software, hardware, travel, Internet, financial services, education, health care and retail products and services. During the last eight years as principal of her own consulting firm, Simply Usable through Design, she has focused on providing usability engineering and interface design consulting services to companies ranging in size from start-ups to Fortune 500s, including CNet, AOL/Netscape, Hewlett Packard, Unisys, Intuit, Humana, BestBuy.com, eBay, AARP and McGraw-Hill, to name a few. Janice has a broad…    

Justifying, developing, and starting a UCD Program
Raising awareness and educating others in the work enviornment
Hiring UCD professionals
Estimating and pricing a UCD effort
Selecting appropriate user research methodologies
Selecting appropriate evaluation methodologies
Designing a user iterface
Designing user help
Web site information architecture
Addressing accessibility issues (i.e. designing for those with disabilities)
Applying UCD to middleware/products with no obvious user interface
Managing the politics of UCD in the Workplace
Recruiting for a UCD effort
Developing and delivering UCD training
Interplay of the business model/business requirements and user requirements
Cost-Justifying a UCD effort