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In user-centered design user research usually produces detailed description of the users, analysis of relevant actions and the specifics of the environment and artefacts thereof. However additional step of sampling from different viewpoints is required to more efficiently kick-start user-centered product concept development. Design perspectives, abstracted cross-category samples of user research results, are introduced as means to increase the usefulness of analyzed data during user-centered product concept development. Defining additional layer of entities in addition to conventional user research results helps to migrate from the pedant data-gathering phase to the more creative concept development phase. This paper describes definitions of entities involved in constructing design perspectives in a user research method independent manner with examples from a project developing new concepts for mobile and distributed team work.
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Mannonen, P., Nieminen, M.P. (2007). Design Perspectives: Sampling User Research for Concept Development. In: Harris, D. (eds) Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics. EPCE 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4562. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73331-7_12
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