Rapid Contextual Design Workshop

Rapid Contextual Design is a real-world response to the need for effective ways to include customer data into rapidly produced designs. Over the years — in response to projects that called for fast processes with limited resources — Contextual Design has been successfully tailored to a wide-range of projects, some as short as two to three weeks with two-person teams. Our one-day Rapid Contextual Design workshop focuses on the core Contextual Design techniques that most easily drive customer data into the corporate design process while also providing ways to achieve results in tight time frames.

Through lecture, discussion, demonstration, and hands-on experience you're introduced to the key techniques that can become the basis for effective design action and inputs into any development process.

You'll learn how to do Contextual Inquiry field interviews, interpret the results in a team-based process, and build a shared understanding of the market and users' true needs through affinity diagramming. The workshop also deals with how Contextual Design data fits in with — and can drive and influence — other popular methodologies such as personas, use cases, and agile programming techniques.

This course gives you hands-on practice for each technique and covers:

Introduction to Rapid Contextual Design (CD)

Contextual Inquiry: Field interviewing

Interpretation session: Abstracting key issues from the field data

The affinity diagram: One coherent picture of the customer population

Walking the wall: Generating design concepts with customer data

Putting it into practice: Using different forms of Rapid CD and planning

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