{"product_id":"9780080515717","title":"Rapid Contextual Design: A How-to Guide to Key Techniques for User-Centered Design","description":"\u003cp\u003eIs 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?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRapid Contextual Design\u003c\/i\u003e 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!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncludes real project examples with actual customer data that illustrate how a CD project actually works\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCovers 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\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProvides examples of how-to write affinity notes and affinity labels, build an affinity diagram, and step-by-step instructions for consolidating sequence models\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShows how to use consolidated data to define a design within tight time frames with examples of visions, storyboards, and paper prototypes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduces CDTools™, the first application designed to support customer-centered design\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Elsevier Science","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47077033607408,"sku":"9780080515717","price":56.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780080515717_p0.jpg?v=1763638738","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780080515717","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}