Hugh Beyer & Karen Holtzblatt (1997)
Morgan Kaufmann.
Abstract. The book that codified Contextual Inquiry as a structured field-research method for software design. Master-apprentice interviewing, work modelling (flow, sequence, artifact, cultural, physical), affinity diagramming, and the contextual-design process from data to system design. The methodological alternative to lab-based usability testing.
Tags: usability-testing ethnographic contextual-inquiry foundational