“Contextual Design: Evolved”

We’ve received a tremendous response to our Cool Concepts and the resulting changes in Contextual Design. You can now read our first book on the topic. Contextual Design: Evolved explains how we overhauled Contextual Design to help teams design for the way...

Contextual Design: Evolved

Contextual Design is a user-centered design process that uses in-depth field research to drive innovative design. Contextual Design was first invented in 1988 and has since been used in a wide variety of industries and taught in universities all over the world. It is...

Know You Are Building the Right Thing – Part 1

Contextual Design uses in-depth field research and well-defined processes to develop a design that works for people. Contextual Design is equally useful to invent a game-changing design independent of what has gone before and to design the next version of an existing...

InContext at HCI International / DUXU 2014

The HCI International conference is an umbrella for several affiliated conferences, including DUXU (Design, User Experience, and Usability). Karen will be co-presenting a paper at DUXU on Cool in Business: Developing a Data-Based Instrument Measuring...

InContext at CHI 2014

When: April 26th – May 1st Where: Toronto, Canada InContext is busy at CHI this year! We’re excited to be on a panel, leading a SIG, presenting a case study, and more. CHI 2014 is the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, the premier international...