Fundamentals of User-Centered Design gives its readers not just an understanding of the underpinnings of UCD theory and origins, but also a practical, repeatable process for creating effective UCD. This book includes chapters on user research methods to create actionable user profiles, assessing and creating designs for different use environments, balancing user needs and preferences with client and organizational goals, and building and testing prototypes. UCD principles are demonstrated using timely examples and easy to follow descriptions. This book also provides short specialty chapters on UCD for mobile applications, print documents, and hardware. Core chapters also address UCD for international users, working in UCD teams, and tools to help research and produce UCD. Fundamentals of User-Centered Design is a useful book for students in a range of fields: UX, interaction design, information design, visual design, usability, human factors, human-computer interaction, psychology, computer science, and technical communication. Real world UCD examples (both bad and good) are presented, and takeaways providing thorough summaries to help with comprehension are included for all major chapters. We've also developed accompanying instructor presentation slides and a robust Instructor's Manual to help students carry out practical research projects.

Even practitioners who buy the book will appreciate the thoroughness of the information and the straightforward guidance on how to implement effective UCD for different types of products. Features, Provides in-depth analysis, with real world examples, of UCD methods, Includes chapters that focus not just on web or software applications, but also look at mobile, hardware, and print UCD concerns, Focuses on learning the RABBIT UCD development approach-an easy to understand and implement process, Explores practical blending of history, theory, and application, offering a fundamental, comprehensive overview of UCD for students in university or industry, An instructor's manual and PowerPoint® presentation slides are available upon qualifying course adoption Book jacket.