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Elizabeth Goodman - Observing the User Experience - 9780123848697 - V9780123848697
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Observing the User Experience

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Description for Observing the User Experience Paperback. 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. This title helps you to 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. Num Pages: 608 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: UMZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 190 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1218.
Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research aims to bridge the gap between what digital companies think they know about their users and the actual user experience. Individuals engaged in digital product and service development often fail to conduct user research. The book presents concepts and techniques to provide an understanding of how people experience products and services. The techniques are drawn from the worlds of human-computer interaction, marketing, and social sciences. The book is organized into three parts. Part I discusses the benefits of end-user research and the ways it fits into the development of useful, desirable, and successful products. Part II presents techniques for understanding people's needs, desires, and abilities. Part III explains the communication and application of research results. It suggests ways to sell companies and explains how user-centered design can make companies more efficient and profitable. This book is meant for people involved with their products' user experience, including program managers, designers, marketing managers, information architects, programmers, consultants, and investors.

Product Details

Publisher
Elsevier Science & Technology United States
Number of pages
608
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
1209g
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
San Francisco, United States
ISBN
9780123848697
SKU
V9780123848697
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-4

About Elizabeth Goodman
Elizabeth Goodman has taught user experience research and tangible interaction design at the University of California, Berkeley and site-specific art practice at the San Francisco Art Institute. She has also worked with exploratory research and design teams at Intel, Fuji-Xerox, and Yahoo and speaks widely on the design of mobile and pervasive computing systems at conferences, schools, and businesses. She received her PhD from the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley in fall 2013. During graduate school, her scholarly research on interaction design practice was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship and an Intel PhD Fellowship Mike Kuniavsky is a user experience designer, researcher and author. A twenty-year veteran of digital product development, Mike is a consultant and the co-founder of several user experience centered companies: ThingM manufactures products for ubiquitous computing and the Internet of Things; Adaptive Path is a well-known design consultancy. He is also the founder and organizer of Sketching in Hardware, an annual summit on the future of tools for digital product user experience design for leading technology developers, designers and educators. Mike frequently writes and speaks on digital product and service design, and works with product development groups in both large companies and startups. His most recent book is Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design. Andrea Moed believes that research is essential in designing to support human relationships. She has been a design researcher and strategist for over 15 years, observing users of websites, phones and other mobile devices, museums, retail environments and educational and business software. She is currently the Staff User Researcher at Inflection, a technology company working to democratize access to public records. Andrea has master's degrees from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University and the UC Berkeley School of Information, and has taught at the Parsons School of Design in New York. Her writing on design and technology has appeared in a variety of publications.

Reviews for Observing the User Experience
The no-nonsense approach includes guidelines, tables for estimating costs, and plenty of detailed practical advice. Simply written, well-structured and highly informative. Don't leave home without it.
Gerry Gaffney, Founder and Director, Information & Design

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