Shelley Wood – författare

Is it impossible to schedule enough time to include users in your design process? Is it difficult to incorporate elaborate user-centered design techniques into your own standard design practices? Do the resources needed seem overwhelming?

This handbook introduces Rapid CD, a fast-paced, adaptive form of Contextual Design. Rapid CD is a hands-on guide for anyone who needs practical guidance on how to use the Contextual Design process and adapt it to tactical projects with tight timelines and resources.

Rapid Contextual Design provides detailed suggestions on structuring the project and customer interviews, conducting interviews, and running interpretation sessions. The handbook walks you step-by-step through organizing the data so you can see your key issues, along with visioning new solutions, storyboarding to work out the details, and paper prototype interviewing to iterate the design-all with as little as a two-person team with only a few weeks to spare!

Shelley Wood is on a mission to create a new generation of joyful ChangeMakers who can tackle the myriad challenges facing our world today. Distilling twenty years of observation and study, she offers a head start to the next generation of leaders who want to make the world a better, more awake, and more self-aware place. Experience has shown her that positive results can come from making tough decisions in ways that enhance connection, mitigate economic stress, and avert the breakdown of community. The ChangeMaker Guide celebrates great change leaders who have forged that more mindful path. It honors their legacies and reminds us that we each have the ability to create a better world—for ourselves, and for those around us. Shelley holds a Master of Science in International Business and a Master’s Certificate in Strategic Change Leadership. She consults with “for-good” organizations, such as 501c3s and certified B corporations, to support their leadership and visionary goals. She also provides coaching for visionaries, leaders, and dreamers to launch their visions and build stronger, more resilient communities.