Research Catalog

Title

• Observing the user experience : a practitioner's guide to user research / Elizabeth Goodman, Mike Kuniavsky, Andrea Moed.

Author

Goodman, Elizabeth, 1976-

Publication

Waltham, MA : Morgan Kaufmann, c2012.

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Additional Authors

• Kuniavsky, Mike.
• Moed, Andrea

Description

xiii, 585 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.

Summary

"The gap between who designers and developers imagine their users are, and who those users really are can be the biggest problem with product development. "Observing the User Experience" will help you bridge that gap to understand what your users want and need from your product, and whether they'll be able to use what you've created. Filled with real-world experience and a wealth of practical information, this book presents a complete toolbox of techniques to help designers and developers see through the eyes of their users. It provides in-depth coverage of 13 user experience research techniques that will provide a basis for developing better products, whether they're Web, software or mobile based. In addition, it's written with an understanding of how software is developed in the real world, taking tight budgets, short schedules, and existing processes into account. This title: explains how to create usable products that are still original, creative, and unique; is a valuable resource for designers, developers, project managers - anyone in a position where their work comes in direct contact with the end user; provides a real-world perspective on research and provides advice about how user research can be done cheaply, quickly and how results can be presented persuasively; and, gives readers the tools and confidence to perform user research on their own designs and tune their software user experience to the unique needs of their project."--Provided by Publisher.

Subject

• Human-computer interaction
• Observation (Scientific method)
• User interfaces (Computer systems)
• User-centered system design

Note

• Machine generated contents note: Part I: Why Research is Good and How It Fits Into Product Development 1. Typhoon: A Fable 2. Do a Usability Test Now! 3. Balancing Needs Through Iterative Development 4. The User Experience Part II: User Experience Research Techniques 5. The Research Plan 6. Universal tools: Recruiting and Interviewing 7. User Profiles 8. Contextual Inquiry, Task Analysis, Card Sorting 9. Focus Groups 10. Usability Tests 11. Surveys 12. Ongoing Relationship 13. Log Files and Customer Support 14. Competitive Research 15. Others' Hard Work: Published Information and Consultants 16. Emerging Techniques Part III: Communicating Results 17. Reports and Presentations 18. Creating a User-Centered Corporate Culture Appendices A. The Budget Research Lab B. Common Survey Questions C. Observer Instructions Bibliography Index About the Author.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. 1. Why research is good and how it fits into product development. Introduction -- Do a usability test now! -- Balancing needs through iterative development -- pt. 2. User experience research techniques. Research planning -- Competitive research -- Universal tools : recruiting and interviewing -- Focus groups -- More than words : object-based techniques -- Field visits : learning from observation -- Diary studies -- Usability tests -- Surveys -- Global and cross-cultural research -- Others' hard work : published information and consultants -- Analyzing qualitative data -- Automatically gathered information : usage data and customer feedback -- pt. 3. Communicating results. Research into action : representing insights as deliverables -- Reports, presentations, and workshops -- Creating a user-centered corporate culture.

ISBN

• 9780123848697 (pbk.)
• 0123848695 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2012014674

OCLC

794272066

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library