Communicating the UX vision : 13 anti-patterns that block good ideas / / Martina Hodges-Schell, James O'Brien

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788163603321
• Autore: Hodges-Schell Martina
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Waltham, Massachusetts : , : Morgan Kaufmann, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-12-799924-8
• Edizione: [1st edition]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (374 p.)
• Disciplina: 004.21
• Soggetti: User-centered system design - Research; Human-computer interaction - Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; About the authors; Why we wrote this book; How to use this book; A word about job titles; Why anti-patterns?; How to use the patterns; On the importance of understanding your own style; Pattern zero; Address the person first and the requirement second; Edge cases; The anti-patterns; Speaking different languages; Having different KPIs; Not embracing everyone's goals; Presenting without contextualizing; Being in the room, but not present; Not having a consistent design language; Throwing deliverables over the fenceLiving in the deliverables; Assuming others don't get design; Insisting on perfection; Responding to tone, not content; Defending too hard; Not defending hard enough; Chapter 1 - Speaking different languages; Summary; The "Speaking Different Languages" anti-pattern; You know you're in it when...; Patterns; Stakeholder safari; The meeting before the meeting and the meeting after the meeting; The meeting before the meeting; The meeting after the meeting; Lowering the wall; Step back; Play it back; If others inflict this anti-pattern on you; Terminology explainedChapter 2 - Having different KPIs; How organizations measure success; Intrinsic motivation; When KPIs clash; Summary; The "Having Different KPIs" anti-pattern; You know you're in it when ...; Patterns; Diligent discovery; Tu casa es mi casa; Don't butt ; heads; If others inflict this anti-pattern on you; Don't try to handle organizational change singlehanded; Terminology explained; Reference; Chapter 3 - Not embracing everyone's goals; Onto the right path; The sore thumb paradox; Summary; The "Not Embracing Everyone's Goals" anti-pattern; You know you're in it when...; Patterns; Be the canonical source of whyActive agreement; Consciously internalize; Stakeholders are people, too; Present in context; Co-design; If others inflict this anti-pattern on you; Terminology explained; References; Chapter 4 - Presenting without contextualizing; Common assets for providing context; Telling the story of UX; Getting good feedback; Summary; The "Presenting Without Contextualizing" anti-pattern; You know you're in it when...; How to break the anti-pattern; Patterns; Prepare for presentation; Be present to present; Casting feedback; Set scope expectations; Actively confirm understandingThe Half-Silvered Mirror; Tell them what you told them; If others inflict this anti-pattern on you; Terminology explained; ReferenceS; Chapter 5 - Being in the room but not present; What is your job?; New software development processes, new collaboration models; Collaborating in iterative environments; Focus in an open-plan world; Summary; The "Being in the room but not present" anti-pattern; You'll know you're in it when ...; Patterns - how to be a better collaborator; Push for in-person access; The stenographers' pattern; The life in mono pattern; Carve out a space
• Sommario/riassunto: This book identifies the 13 main challenges designers face when they talk about their work and provides communication strategies so that a better design, not a louder argument, is what makes it into the world. It is a fact that we all want to put great design into the world, but no product ever makes it out of the building without rounds of reviews, feedback, and signoff. As an interaction or UX designer, you've felt the general trend toward faster development, more work, and less discussion. As we spend time crafting, we become attached to our own ideas and it gets all too easy to react to

Anthropological perspectives on local development : knowledge and sentiments in conflict / / edited by Simone Abram and Jacqueline Waldren

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910171011803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1998
• ISBN: 1-134-67238-1; 0-415-18278-6; 1-134-67239-X; 1-280-06702-0; 0-203-45102-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (177 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): AbramSimone; WaldrenJacqueline <1937->
• Disciplina: 307.14
• Soggetti: Community development; Social change; Land use - Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "European Association of Social Anthropologists"--P. opp. t.p.; Conference papers presented in a workshop at the 1996 EASA Conference in Barcelona.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction: anthropological perspectives on local development; Discourses on development in Malaysia; Sex for leisure: modernity among female bar workers in Tanzania; State vs. locality: the new Slovene-Croat state border in the Upper Kolpa valley; From economism to culturalism: the social and cultural construction of risk in the River Esera (Spain); Contested space: planners, tourists, developers and environmentalists in Malta; The road to ruin: the politics of development in the Balearic Islands; When opposite worldviews attract: a case of tourism and local development in Southern FranceIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection examines the conflicts and realities of development at a local, empirical level. It provides a series of case studies which ; illuminate the attitudes and actions all of those involved in local development schemes.