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Carbon IQ User Centered Design Methods Guide

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This is one of the first collections of user experience methods. It describes and analyses user experience design methods by costs expended, time required, resources required, expertise required, and quality of data.

Publisher

Carbon IQ

Discipline or practice

Design

Product Design

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http://eleganthack.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/carboniq_ucd_methods.pdf

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Method library

Features

Guiding framework

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