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The Pocket Universal Methods of Design
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The Pocket Universal Methods of Design

by Bruce Hanington, Bella Martin
November 2017
Beginner
208 pages
3h
English
Rockport Publishers
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A framework for structuring field observations

• This can be used to guide any ethnographic or observational method, corresponding to five interrelated elements:

Activities are goal-directed sets of actions or the pathways that people take toward the things they want to accomplish.

Environments include the context in which activities take place, including the atmosphere and function of individual and shared spaces.

Interactions are the routine and special exchanges between people and between people and objects in the environment.

Objects are the key elements of the environment, sometimes put to complex or even unintended uses.

Users are the people whose behaviors, preferences, and needs are being observed, including their ...

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ISBN: 9781631595349