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The Contextual Inquiry

October 12, 2009

A recent project had me dust off some personal notes on the topic of Contextual Inquiry. I’d like to share here and archive for future reference and public consumption.
Contextual inquiry is a specific type of interview for gathering field data from users. It is usually done by one interviewer speaking to one participant at a [...]

No time for User Research?

September 15, 2009

Unless All of the ingredients are clearly present- the risk of not researching, modeling, and defining user requirements is one not worth leaving to chance.
I attended the NYC UPA event tonight, hosted at Razorfish: “The Razorfish Transformation of Billboard.com”  – Bryan Hamilton, UX Lead, gave a polished presentation on his impressive work.
He mentioned “due to [...]