Contextual Design: A Customer-Centered Approach to Systems Designs

Hugh Beyer, Karen Holtzblatt

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If necessity is the mother of invention, then if you don't know what the users need you can't invent. Karen and Hugh present a step-by-step way to uncover, understand, and use those needs. If developers are not already using techniques like those presented here, they should read this book carefully to see what they are missing.

    --Dan Bricklin
    co-creator of VisiCalc

This book introduces a customer-centered approach to business by showing how data gathered from people while they work can drive the definition of a product or process while supporting the needs of teams and their organizations. This is a practical, hands-on guide for anyone trying to design systems that reflect the way customers want to do their work. The authors developed Contextual Design, the method discussed here, through their work with teams struggling to design products and internal systems. In this book, you'll find the underlying principles of the method and how to apply them to different problems, constraints, and organizational situations.

Contextual Design enables you to

  • gather detailed data about how people work and use systems
  • develop a coherent picture of a whole customer population
  • generate systems designs from a knowledge of customer work
  • diagram a set of existing systems, showing their relationships, inconsistencies, redundancies, and omissions

Authors:

Hugh Beyer and Karen Holtzblatt are co-founders of InContext Enterprises, Inc., a firm that works with companies coaching teams to design products, product strategies, and information systems from customer data. Karen Holtzblatt developed the Contextual Inquiry field data gathering technique that forms the core of Contextual Design and is now taught and used world-wide. Hugh Beyer has pioneered the link between the customer-centered front end and object-oriented design.

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