[IxDA Discuss] Usability is more than...

[Bruce Esrig]

Would anyone on this thread be willing to offer capsule commentary on these
three books?
 - Rapid Contextual Design (Holtzblatt et al)
 - Understanding your Users (Courage and Baxter)
 - Contextual Design (Beyer and Hotzblatt)

Best wishes,

Bruce

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Whitney Quesenbery <whitneyq at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Janne Kaasalainen
> <janne.p.kaasalainen at nokia.com> wrote:
> >  Projects I've dealt with can be divided roughly
> >  into these steps*:
> >
> >  1) Focus
> >  2) User research
> >  3) Design
> >  4) Implementation
> >  5) Evaluation
> >  6) Go to 1
>
> This basic sequence is very similar to the process described in "ISO
> 13407:  Human centred design processes for interactive systems"
>
> In some ways, the very strength of 13407 is that it is not overly
> prescriptive, allowing each company or team to adjust the details to
> specific local contexts. They key is not the exact terminology, or
> even the exact breakdown of the steps, but in the concept of user
> research informing design and evaluating the emerging product against
> requirements that include user experience (not just functionality).
> And, in the insistence that the cycle repeat as necessary.
>
> It seems obvious, but good work in the early stages (and more skill by
> all contributors) can reduce the number of iterations needed.
>
>
>
> --
> Whitney Quesenbery
> www.wqusability.com
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