Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research

Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-585

  Goodman, Elizabeth ^a   Kuniavsky, Mike ^a   Moed, Andrea ^a  

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DOI: 10.1016/C2010-0-64844-9     Document Type: Book

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