June 2, 2010

Pascal Raabe's User Centered Design Poster

Pascal Raabe has created a very neat poster explaining user centered design. He writes:

This is an information graphic poster illustrating the underlying lifecycle, methods, principles and techniques in a user centred design process where the visual part is only the tip of the iceberg. (…) Although I know that this diagram is by no means complete, I believe that it can be beneficial for students and design practitioners in various disciplines.

I like it.

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If you liked this, you'll love my book. It's called Designed for Use: Create Usable Interfaces for Applications and the Web. In it, I cover the whole design process, from user research and sketching to usability tests and A/B testing. But I don't just explain techniques, I also talk about concepts like discoverability, when and how to use animations, what we can learn from video games, and much more.

You can find out more about it (and order it directly, printed or as a DRM-free ebook) on the Pragmatic Programmers website.