Contextual Design

Contextual Design
Author: Hugh Beyer
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Total Pages: 498
Release: 1998
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1558604111

This is the only book that describes a complete approach to customer-centered design, from customer data to system design. Readers will be able to develop the work models that represent all aspects of customer work practices.

Customer-centered Design

Customer-centered Design
Author: Kreta Chandler
Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2003
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 0130479624

-- HP's expertise in this area has earned them Vendor of the Year awards in e-commerce from key resller partners.-- Case studies showing how the new principles, techniques, and methodologies worked at Web sites such as Amazon, Office Depot, QVC, and Outpost.This book is a practical guide to understanding web page design and usability factors needed for the online store shelf. Designing and structuring information correctly enhances navigation through your site as well as delivering your customers a satisfying shopping experience. The authors have consulted with such diverse customers as Amazon, AOL, QVC, Outpost, Egghead, Office Depot and others. The concepts they've brought to these accounts have earned HP Vendor of the Year award in e-commerce from key HP reseller partners. Learn to blend customer insights with products and with web capabilities to create web sites that maximize customer-centered design. Your resulting web sites will have an ease of usability that lead to superior customer experiences while maximizing sales. This book includes plenty of examples and case studies showing how to apply new principles, techniques, and methodologies that will win you loyal customers.

User-Centered Design

User-Centered Design
Author: Travis Lowdermilk
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2013-05-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1449359809

Looks at the application design process, describing how to create user-friendly applications.

User-Centered Design Stories

User-Centered Design Stories
Author: Carol Righi
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 688
Release: 2010-07-27
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0080481558

User-Centered Design Stories is the first user-centered design casebook with cases covering the key tasks and issues facing UCD practitioners today. Intended for both students and practitioners, this book 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 analyze 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 faced by practitioners, including those 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 new practitioners (as well as experienced practitioners working in new settings) valuable practice in decision-making that cannot be obtained by simply reading a book or attending a seminar. The first User-Centered Design Casebook, with cases covering the key tasks and issues facing UCD practitioners today. Each chapter based on real world cases with complex problems, giving readers as close to a real-world experience as possible. Offers "the things you don't learn in school," such as innovative and hybrid solutions that were actually used on the problems discussed.

Interactive Design

Interactive Design
Author: Andy Pratt
Publisher: Rockport Pub
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012-09-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1592537804

User experience design is one of the fastest-growing specialties in graphic design. Smart companies realize that the most successful products are designed to meet the needs and goals of real people—the users. This means putting the user at the center of the design process. This innovative, comprehensive book examines the user-centered design process from the perspective of a designer. With rich imagery, Interactive Design introduces the different UX players, outlines the user-centered design process from user research to user testing, and explains through various examples how user-centered design has been successfully integrated into the design process of a variety of design studios worldwide.

Customer Centricity

Customer Centricity
Author: Peter Fader
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2012
Genre: Business planning
ISBN:

Not all customers are created equal. Despite what the tired old adage says, the customer is not always right. Not all customers deserve your best efforts: in the world of customer centricity, there are good customers...and then there is pretty much everybody else. Upending some of our most fundamental beliefs, renowned behavioral data expert Peter Fader, Co-Director of The Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative, helps businesses radically rethink how they relate to customers. He provides insights to help you revamp your performance metrics, product development, customer relationship management and organization in order to make sure you focus directly on the needs of your most valuable customers and increase profits for the long term.

User Experience Innovation

User Experience Innovation
Author: Christian Kraft
Publisher: Apress
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2012-06-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1430241500

User Experience Innovation is a book about creating novel and engaging user experiences for new products and systems. User experience is what makes devices such as Apple's iPhone and systems such as Amazon.com so successful. iPhone customers don't buy just a phone; they buy into an experience enabled by the device. Similarly, Amazon.com customers enter a world of book reviews, interesting recommendations, instant downloads to their Kindle, and one-click purchasing. Products today are focal points, and it is the experience surrounding the product that matters the most. User Experience Innovation helps you create the right sort of experience around your products in order to be successful in the marketplace. The approach in User Experience Innovation is backed by 18 years of experience from an author holding more than 100 patents relating to user experience. This is a book written by a practitioner for other practitioners. You'll learn 17 specific methods for creating innovation; these methods run the gamut from targeting user needs to relieving pain points, to providing positive surprises, to innovating around paradoxes. Each method is one that the author has used successfully. Taken together, they can help you create truly successful user experience innovations to benefit your company or organization, and to help you grow as an experienced expert and innovator in your own right. Provides 17 proven methods for innovating around user experience Helps you think beyond the product to the sum total of a customer's experience Written by an experienced practitioner holding more than 100 user-experience patents

Rapid Contextual Design

Rapid Contextual Design
Author: Karen Holtzblatt
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2005
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0123540518

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Fundamentals of User-Centered Design

Fundamentals of User-Centered Design
Author: Brian Still
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2017-08-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1498764398

There has been some solid work done in the area of User-Centered Design (UCD) over the last few years. What’s been missing is an in-depth, comprehensive textbook that connects UCD to usability and User Experience (UX) principles and practices. This new textbook discusses a theoretical framework in relation to other design theories. It provides a repeatable, practical process for implementation, offering numerous examples, methods, and case studies for support, and it emphasizes best practices in specific environments, including mobile and web applications, print products, as well as hardware.

Designerly Ways of Knowing

Designerly Ways of Knowing
Author: Nigel Cross
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2007-10-05
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 3764384840

The concept "Designerly Ways of Knowing" emerged in the late 1970s alongside new approaches in design education. This book is a unique insight into expanding discipline area with important implications for design research, education and practice.