User driven product development: Creating a User-Involving Culture

by Kristina Risom Jespersen

User-driven product development is the art of interacting with users in all stages of the innovation process. The quest for user-driven product development creates a collaborative mindset of user-involvement in new product projects. Users are to be regarded as valuable, knowledgeable and innovative resources to product development. The book starts with the design elements of a user-involving product development culture. Based on this, managers and students are invited to study the complexity and challenges of performing user-driven product development in organizations. The significant mechanisms of user-driven product development are described and discussed in detail and through generous use of examples and cases. The main themes of the book are: * The framework of user-driven product development * Information competences demanded by user-driven product development * How to collaborate with users about new product projects * The user-interacting potential of information and web technologies

184 pages, Paperback

First published October 3, 2008

Reviews

[Alain Kovacs · Rating 3 out of 5]

In general I think that the book is pretty good and gives you a good overview of UD-PD, however, in some places, I have found it hard to read and even boring. I do recommend it however to product developers/ companies that do PD