Observing the User Experience

Elizabeth Goodman has taught user experience research and tangible interaction design at the University of California, Berkeley and site-specific art practice at the San Francisco Art Institute. She has also worked with exploratory research and design teams at Intel, Fuji-Xerox, and Yahoo and speaks widely on the design of mobile and pervasive computing systems at conferences, schools, and businesses. She received her PhD from the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley in fall 2013. During graduate school, her scholarly research on interaction design practice was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship and an Intel PhD Fellowship Mike Kuniavsky is a user experience designer, researcher and author. A twenty-year veteran of digital product development, Mike is a consultant and the co-founder of several user experience centered companies: ThingM manufactures products for ubiquitous computing and the Internet of Things; Adaptive Path is a well-known design consultancy. He is also the founder and organizer of Sketching in Hardware, an annual summit on the future of tools for digital product user experience design for leading technology developers, designers and educators. Mike frequently writes and speaks on digital product and service design, and works with product development groups in both large companies and startups. His most recent book is Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design.

PART I: Why Research Is Good and How It Fits into Product Development
1. Introduction
2. Do a Usability Test Now!
3. Balancing Needs through Iterative Development

PART II: User Experience Research Techniques
4. Research Planning
5. Competitive Research
6. Universal Tools: Recruiting and Interviewing
7. Focus Groups
8. More Than Words: Object-Based Techniques
9. Field Visits: Learning from Observation
10. Diary Studies
11. Usability Tests
12. Surveys
13. Global and Cross-Cultural Research
14. Others’ Hard Work: Published Information and Consultants
15. Analyzing Qualitative Data
16. Automatically Gathered Information: Usage Data and Customer Feedback

PART III: Communicating Results
17. Research into Action: Representing Insights as Deliverables
18. Reports, Presentations, and Workshops
19. Creating a User-Centered Corporate Culture