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Summary: Profundidad en el Análisis
Review: Este libro es de gran utilidad, por la diversidad de ideas y casos de aplicación que muestra. Da un panoráma muy amplio de la importancia del análisis de Tarea y Usuarios, con una guía de principio a fin para la concepción de un Diseño. Lo que más me agradó fueron las técnicas que muestra para el Análisis de Tarea. Definitivamente lo recomiendo.
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Summary: A handbook you will dog ear from use
Review: First of all, I have not read this book cover to cover. I have used it as a manual for task analysis in bits and pieces. Eventually, I will read it cover to cover, as it deserves this attention and I need the information.I was recommended this book by a colleague and since recommended it at least a dozen times myself to fellow human factors engineers and software/system designers. It had the answers to many of the practical questions I was asking and being asked. This book gives practical advice on how to analyse a task based on the "things that need to be done" to the "people that need to do them". Based on the recommendations, these are not "pie in the sky" ideas but practical tips from the people that do this work day to day. If you read through the table of contents that Amazon provides you will find most if not all of your questions on how to go about this type of work answered within the pages of this book. Briefly the Chapters are broken up into main segments of this type of work: 1. Introducing User and Task Analysis for Interface Design UNDERSTANDING THE CONTEXT OF USER AND TASK ANALYSIS 2. Thinking about Users 3. Thinking about Tasks 4. Thinking about the User's environment 5. Making the Business case for site visits GETTING READY FOR SITE VISITS 6. Selecting techniques 7. Setting up site visits 8. Preparing for site visits CONDUCTING THE SITE VISIT 9. Conducting the site visit-Honing your observational skills 10.Conducting the site visit-Honing your interview skills MAKING THE TRANSITION FROM ANALYSIS TO DESIGN 11. Analysing and presenting the data you have collected 12. Working toward the interface design 13. Prototyping the interface design 14. User and task analysis for Documentation and training Appendix A: Template for a site visit plan Appendix B: Resources Appendix C: Guidelines for User-Interface Design The appendices are a collection of very useful information to jog your memory while doing a site visit as well as some general user interface guidelines. This makes for a nice checklist to check if you forgot anything. Not only is this book chock full of good tips, advice and an idea of how to structure this type of work, but it was designed well visually. The fonts and typography are pleasant to look at and the examples, graphics and important points are well illustrated. I guess they did a good job of analyzing the task of the reader as well.
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Summary: A handbook you will dog ear from use
Review: First of all, I have not read this book cover to cover. I have used it as a manual for task analysis in bits and pieces. Eventually, I will read it cover to cover, as it deserves this attention and I need the information. I was recommended this book by a colleague and since recommended it at least a dozen times myself to fellow human factors engineers and software/system designers. It had the answers to many of the practical questions I was asking and being asked. This book gives practical advice on how to analyse a task based on the "things that need to be done" to the "people that need to do them". Based on the recommendations, these are not "pie in the sky" ideas but practical tips from the people that do this work day to day. If you read through the table of contents that Amazon provides you will find most if not all of your questions on how to go about this type of work answered within the pages of this book. Briefly the Chapters are broken up into main segments of this type of work: 1. Introducing User and Task Analysis for Interface Design UNDERSTANDING THE CONTEXT OF USER AND TASK ANALYSIS 2. Thinking about Users 3. Thinking about Tasks 4. Thinking about the User's environment 5. Making the Business case for site visits GETTING READY FOR SITE VISITS 6. Selecting techniques 7. Setting up site visits 8. Preparing for site visits CONDUCTING THE SITE VISIT 9. Conducting the site visit-Honing your observational skills 10.Conducting the site visit-Honing your interview skills MAKING THE TRANSITION FROM ANALYSIS TO DESIGN 11. Analysing and presenting the data you have collected 12. Working toward the interface design 13. Prototyping the interface design 14. User and task analysis for Documentation and training Appendix A: Template for a site visit plan Appendix B: Resources Appendix C: Guidelines for User-Interface Design The appendices are a collection of very useful information to jog your memory while doing a site visit as well as some general user interface guidelines. This makes for a nice checklist to check if you forgot anything. Not only is this book chock full of good tips, advice and an idea of how to structure this type of work, but it was designed well visually. The fonts and typography are pleasant to look at and the examples, graphics and important points are well illustrated. I guess they did a good job of analyzing the task of the reader as well.
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Summary: Great for the practitioner's bookshelf!
Review: I just finished planning a contextual inquiry for a new product. This book covered everything I needed to know, from how to structure the plan to suggestions on what to bring for gifts. I especially like the paragraphs that describe real things that happened to the authors and their friends while doing these studies. If you are considering any kind of site visit or field study in order to learn about the end users of your product (AND YOU SHOULD), you will find this book highly useful. Check with me later as to how well it helped me write up results...
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Summary: Great for the practitioner's bookshelf!
Review: I just finished planning a contextual inquiry for a new product. This book covered everything I needed to know, from how to structure the plan to suggestions on what to bring for gifts. I especially like the paragraphs that describe real things that happened to the authors and their friends while doing these studies. If you are considering any kind of site visit or field study in order to learn about the end users of your product (AND YOU SHOULD), you will find this book highly useful. Check with me later as to how well it helped me write up results...
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Summary: How to do it..
Review: I like it a lot this book, because really can help you how to do a Good Design, The book show a lot techniques an examples than help you to understand and make it easy. This book has usability itself. I enjoyed a lot.
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Summary: Read it before you need it.
Review: If there is one strong message in this book, it is: Go talk to the people who will use your product. It's an important message. Software designers and writers spend too much time with each other developing clever tricks, while the poor user, often left to self-train with a poorly written manual, gives up in frustration. The authors follow their own advice--in addition to telling you how to conduct a site visit to the end users, there are clear instructions (based on experience) on planning a visit, structuring questions, how to make the site visit useful for both the analyzers and the users, and figuring out what the user said and what it means about the product. There are reminders about release forms and examples of the forms themselves. Case studies help make the points clear and undestandable. A thoroughly readable book in clear and simple language that can be started anywhere for quick help, or read cover to cover for a complete course.
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Summary: Good Reference, Easy Reading, Informative
Review: Really drives-home the importance of understanding What problem(s) will be solved for users?. This book puts user and task analysis into propective, conveying good 'how to' information.
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Summary: It's about communication not design
Review: This book does not cover design of the interface well at all.
Not worth buying for design. Ok for how to talk to a user
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Summary: a perfect starter text for students and new comers
Review: This book is a perfect starter text for students and new comers to interface design. I have found it to be the most concise collection of interface methodology in print. I am currently using this book to guide my college level communication class through a user-centered design curriculum. They have found it to be some of the easiest material written on these subjects to digest.
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