Understanding Context

Andrew Hinton

ISBN 10: 1449323170 / ISBN 13: 9781449323172

Published by O?Reilly Media, 2014

About this Item

2014. 1st Edition. Paperback. This practical, insightful book provides a powerful toolset to help information architects, UX professionals, and web and app designers understand and solve the many challenges of contextual ambiguity in the products and services they create. Num Pages: 464 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: UYZG. Category: (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 672. . . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Understanding Context
• Publisher: O?Reilly Media
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1449323170
• ISBN 13: 9781449323172
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

To make sense of the world, we're always trying to place things in context, whether our environment is physical, cultural, or something else altogether. Now that we live among digital, always-networked products, apps, and places, context is more complicated than ever--starting with "where" and "who" we are.

This practical, insightful book provides a powerful toolset to help information architects, UX professionals, and web and app designers understand and solve the many challenges of contextual ambiguity in the products and services they create. You'll discover not only how to design for a given context, but also how design participates in making context.

• Learn how people perceive context when touching and navigating digital environments
• See how labels, relationships, and rules work as building blocks for context
• Find out how to make better sense of cross-channel, multi-device products or services
• Discover how language creates infrastructure in organizations, software, and the Internet of Things
• Learn models for figuring out the contextual angles of any user experience

About the Author

Andrew Hinton is a well-known speaker, writer and long-time community member of the information architecture, interaction design & user experience fields, as well as a co-founder and past board member of the IA Institute. But besides all that, he's a dad, a husband and the keeper of a "spirited" Boston Terrier named Sigmund.