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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
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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 time lines 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 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 design - all with as little as a two-person team with only a few weeks to spare! This book includes real project examples with actual customer data that illustrate how a CD project actually works. It covers the entire scope of a project, from deciding on the number and type of interviews, to interview set up and analyzing collected data. Sample project schedules are also included for a variety of different types of projects. This book provides examples of how-to write affinity notes and affinity labels, build an affinity diagram, and step-by-step instructions for consolidating sequence models. It shows how to use consolidated data to define a design within tight time frames with examples of visions, storyboards, and paper prototypes. It introduces CDToolsT, the first application designed to support customer-centered design.
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This handbook is a how-to companion to the main Contextual Design book, Contextual Design: Defining Customer-Centered Systems. Read the first page
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Clarifies the line between theory and practice!
15 May 2008
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If you are looking for an elegant, academic theory to suggest how contextual design might work in some controlled laboratory experiment-- this is not the book for you. This work gives step-by-step procedures on how to conduct contextual design in the real, uncontrolled world of people's lives, and how to do this work on an accelerated time schedule.
This is a clear tutorial and worthy "field manual" on contextual design, task sequence modeling, affinity diagrams, and paper prototyping for applied work in the real world.
Because it takes you through each activity step-by-step, this book does name the tools used at the time this work was crafted. Some reviewers consider that blatant advertising-- and in the case of citations for "CDTools" perhaps that's true. But in most cases it is very helpful to know that some specific products are more field-worthy than others. I strongly doubt these authors have any financial interest in boosting sales of 3M Post-It notes. (Though Amazon may profit from sales of 3M - 2051-FLT - 3M Post-it Bright Colors Memo Cube)
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This is a clear tutorial and worthy "field manual" on contextual design, task sequence modeling, affinity diagrams, and paper prototyping for applied work in the real world.
Because it takes you through each activity step-by-step, this book does name the tools used at the time this work was crafted. Some reviewers consider that blatant advertising-- and in the case of citations for "CDTools" perhaps that's true. But in most cases it is very helpful to know that some specific products are more field-worthy than others. I strongly doubt these authors have any financial interest in boosting sales of 3M Post-It notes. (Though Amazon may profit from sales of 3M - 2051-FLT - 3M Post-it Bright Colors Memo Cube)
:-)
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Practitioner's guide to contextual design - now with more agile / scrum
7 Mar 2009
Format:Paperback
Karen's process is something that actually works, unlike many psudo-ethnographic customer engagement strategies.
By maintaining a connection to the customer data from the beginning to the end, it uniquely empowers you with a defensible design rationale. Something few other approaches can say.
A true roadmap for playing nicely with agile development is also something you won't find in most other customer research methodologies, especially contextual ones.
Whether or not you are willing to live the process and follow the steps outlined is another matter. Your mileage may vary, especially if you decided to line item veto particular aspects.
By maintaining a connection to the customer data from the beginning to the end, it uniquely empowers you with a defensible design rationale. Something few other approaches can say.
A true roadmap for playing nicely with agile development is also something you won't find in most other customer research methodologies, especially contextual ones.
Whether or not you are willing to live the process and follow the steps outlined is another matter. Your mileage may vary, especially if you decided to line item veto particular aspects.
2 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Like chewing on aluminum foil
4 Feb 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I don't know if the content of this book is good or bad, but reading it is like chewing on aluminum foil. It's painful...really painful. It's just so dry that it's worse than reading an instruction manual, and there is no motivation to read 'til the next page.
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