Alan Cooper's Goal-Oriented Design process - step-by-step

Looks like a fairly standard approach.

I split design in to Concept and Detail and use an overlapped
iterative approach to phases - no water fall or throwing things over
the wall.

I also use a task based process rather than a goal based, this is an
evolution from goal based and attempts to define the users by what
they do, not what car they drive (as can happen with badly created
personas). In all cases tasks, users etc I try to keep as real as
possible.

Stewart Dean

2008/5/1 chadvavra <chad.vavra at imedstudios.com>:
> I haven't, but I did recently come up with a distilled philosophy.
>
> "To create a human connection in technological products with usable
> form and content by understanding business and user desires, needs,
> and motivations. "
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> My company uses a version called,
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> "Discover, Design, Develop, Deploy"
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> but I I worry sometimes as Design is so early and so not what is
> traditionally "design".
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Stewart Dean

Hi Brandon,

>From my humble experience, there's no so much needs for the detail or
distilled version of the process. but instead, better have insight on
the metaphor of the process ( in his book, cooper compare it with
movie making). and the key points runs along the process:
1. concept model
2. behaviour pattern
3. persona for user modeling
4. etc
this makes use less bounded to specifice steps (or even create
localized version that fit your own problem)

Cheers
-- Jarod

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:53 AM, Brandon E.B. Ward <brandon at pluggd.com> wrote:
> Anybody have a super-distilled version of the Cooper design process? I'm thinking something like:
>
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> 1. Research user goals.
> 2. Refine research results.
> 3. Develop personas.
> 4. Write high-level scenarios.
>
> Etc. etc.
>
> I guess one could make one based on the chapter/section titles from About Face 3, but ... If anyone has something like this that'd be grrrrEAT!
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