Rapid Contextual Design

The new how-to guide boosts the value of the original Contextual Design book by transforming a design method into pragmatic advice of how to run a Contextual Design project in your own environment.
—Joerg Beringer, Director, Strategic Product Design, SAP-AG

A wise guide to interface design do’s and don'ts, from people with experience. They create a new language for thinking about design processes, combining a compelling, structured process with sufficient freedom for innovative excursions.
—Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland

Rapid Contextual Design provides a further step in innovation by providing detailed, practical advice on how to conduct successful research projects and to fit the project to the need. My team welcomes these new advances and the flexibility they will provide when we conduct future projects using this method.
Terry Austin, User Experience Group Manager, Microsoft

Is 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?
This 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.
Rapid Contextual Design 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!

Features:
·Includes real project examples with actual customer data that illustrate how a CD project actually works
·Covers the entire scope of a project, from deciding on the number and type of interviews, to interview set-up and analyzing collected data.