Would anyone on this thread be willing to offer capsule commentary on these three books? - Rapid Contextual Design (Holtzblatt et al) - Understanding your Users (Courage and Baxter) - Contextual Design (Beyer and Hotzblatt)
Best wishes, Bruce On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Whitney Quesenbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Janne Kaasalainen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Projects I've dealt with can be divided roughly > > into these steps*: > > > > 1) Focus > > 2) User research > > 3) Design > > 4) Implementation > > 5) Evaluation > > 6) Go to 1 > > This basic sequence is very similar to the process described in "ISO > 13407: Human centred design processes for interactive systems" > > In some ways, the very strength of 13407 is that it is not overly > prescriptive, allowing each company or team to adjust the details to > specific local contexts. They key is not the exact terminology, or > even the exact breakdown of the steps, but in the concept of user > research informing design and evaluating the emerging product against > requirements that include user experience (not just functionality). > And, in the insistence that the cycle repeat as necessary. > > It seems obvious, but good work in the early stages (and more skill by > all contributors) can reduce the number of iterations needed. > > > > -- > Whitney Quesenbery > www.wqusability.com > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
