Re: [IxDA Discuss] Can Contextual Design be used to define a business process

2007-11-26 Thread Milan Guenther
Hi again, I forgot to mention one more resource: there is a book from SAP about designing business apps via their xApps composite application framework, which is co-edited by Karen Holtzblatt and introduces a contextual design approach for processes. Designing Composite Applications by Jörg

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Can Contextual Design be used to define a business process

2007-11-25 Thread Milan Guenther
Hi! be sure to have a look at this article from IBM / Rational: Integrate business modeling and interaction design http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-soa-busmodeling/ They combine SOA-related BA methods with IxD methods to re-model business processes - it's maybe not the answer to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Can Contextual Design be used to define a business process

2007-11-24 Thread Mark Schraad
HI Mark, Contextual inquiry is a very powerful tool for getting to the heart of customer usage as well as for taking the temp of the market. I have used it with field workers, customer service personnel as well as with sales staff. There is a tremendous amount of tacit knowledge in those

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Can Contextual Design be used to define a business process

2007-11-23 Thread Parth Upadhye
Holtzblatt's Rapid Contextual Design process is basically a clarified definition of most processes; but especially in the context of software. We are thinking of doing contextual inquiry to understand the decision process customers go through If I understand correctly, you want to apply her