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Rapid Contextual Design
A How-to Guide to Key Techniques for User-Centered Design (Interactive Technologies)
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
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 advice 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 do’s 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
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 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!
Features:
·Includes real project examples with actual customer data that illustrate how a CD project actually works
·Covers the entire scope of a project, from deciding on the number and type of interviews, to interview set-up and analyzing collected data.
320 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2004
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December 25, 2022
Rapid Contextual Design is a book that provides a detailed guide to key techniques for user-centered design. The book focuses on the importance of understanding the context in which a product will be used, and how to use this understanding to inform the design process.
One key learning point from the book is the importance of gathering and analyzing user data to inform the design process. The authors advocate for a rapid, iterative design process that involves conducting user research, prototyping, and testing in order to quickly gather and incorporate feedback from users. This approach helps to ensure that the final product is more closely aligned with the needs and preferences of the target audience.
Another key learning point is the importance of involving users in the design process. The authors recommend involving users at every stage of the design process, from gathering initial requirements to testing and iterating on prototypes. This helps to ensure that the final product is more closely aligned with the needs and preferences of the target audience.
Overall, I would rate the book 4/5. The methodology described in the book is well-organized and easy to follow, and the authors provide a wealth of practical tips and examples to illustrate key concepts. However, some of the techniques and tools described in the book may be more applicable to certain types of products and industries, so it may not be as useful for designers working in other contexts.
One key learning point from the book is the importance of gathering and analyzing user data to inform the design process. The authors advocate for a rapid, iterative design process that involves conducting user research, prototyping, and testing in order to quickly gather and incorporate feedback from users. This approach helps to ensure that the final product is more closely aligned with the needs and preferences of the target audience.
Another key learning point is the importance of involving users in the design process. The authors recommend involving users at every stage of the design process, from gathering initial requirements to testing and iterating on prototypes. This helps to ensure that the final product is more closely aligned with the needs and preferences of the target audience.
Overall, I would rate the book 4/5. The methodology described in the book is well-organized and easy to follow, and the authors provide a wealth of practical tips and examples to illustrate key concepts. However, some of the techniques and tools described in the book may be more applicable to certain types of products and industries, so it may not be as useful for designers working in other contexts.
May 26, 2021
This book is very practical for learning about UX. There is a great detail about how to interview and build prototypes with specific examples. High recommended!
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