Understanding Context

Environment, Language, and Information Architecture



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Price$24.99 - $36.90
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AuthorAndrew Hinton
PublisherO'Reilly Media
Published2014
Pages464
LanguageEnglish
FormatPaper book / ebook (PDF)
ISBN-101449323170
ISBN-139781449323172
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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.




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