Description
Book Synopsis
Research, design, and development firms are actively recruiting anthropologists and other social scientists, as ethnographic research becomes more central to the creation of appropriate new products, services, and marketing strategies for U.S. and global markets. To be successful designers, professionals must learn new processes, develop training programs, modify communication styles, and share their methods to make their work possible. The current volume is written by social scientists, designers, and entrepreneurs who create new products and services. They provide frank and insightful discussions about the opportunities and challenges facing researchers and designers who are learning to collaborate.
The book highlights several major topics in order to focus on critical aspects of the industry's highly related features. It provides background information about ethnography, decsribes and analyzes the industry, presents case examples of working practices and discuss
Table of Contents
Foreword: Ethnography, Design, and Customer Experience: An Anthropologist's Sense of It All by John F. Sherry Jr. Introduction: An Introduction to the Growing Partnership Between Research and Design by Susan Squires and Bryan Byrne Converging Professions Managing for Breakthroughs: A View from Industrial Design by Charles Leinbach Behavioral Scientists Enter Design: Seven Critical Histories by William Reese Creating Collaborative Cultures Designing Collaborative Corporate Cultures by Bryan Byrne and Ed Sands Collaborative Work: Integrating the Roles of Ethnographers and Designers by Christina Wasson Team Roles in the Design Process: Living With and Creating Legacies the Benefit Design by Sally Ann Applin Emerging Collaborative Processes Doing the Work: Customer Research in the Product Development and Design Industry by Susan Squires A Client's Perspective on User-Centered Design by George Walls Communicating with Clients by Rita Denny Anthroplogy and Industrial Design: A Voice from the Front Lines by Mark Dawson Semiotics as Common Ground: Connecting the Cultures of Analysis and Creation by Heiko Sacher The Future of Design Conclusion: Towards an Integrative Design Discipline by Ken Friedman Postscript by Eric Arnould
