Elizabeth Goodman - Observing the User Experience, Second Edition: A Practitioners Guide to User Research

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kuniavsky, Mike.

Observing the user experience : a practitioners guide to user research / Mike Kuniavsky, Elizabeth Goodman, Andrea Moed. -- 2nd ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-12-384869-7 (pbk.)

1. User-centered system design. 2. Observation (Scientific method) I. Goodman, Elizabeth, 1976- II. Moed, Andrea. III. Title.

TA166.K86 2012

004.21--dc23

2012014674

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ISBN: 978-0-12-384869-7

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