User-centered design for an academic book is a challenge. The book will be published by the Lapland University Press. A new book on service design has a working title “Service Design with Theory”. Experience prototyping of the book user gave new ideas for the editing work of the book. This kind of prototyping session should be fundamental when planning a new book.

Together with Sinco team, the publisher’s representative Paula and Olli, a graphic designer we simulated range of book use cases (student working with MA thesis, the researcher and the teacher’s point of view), how to make the book more accessible (how the information about the new book can be found in internet, library and in shop, and how to locate it) and usability (how can I find information that interests me in the book, how to quote easily, how to mark interesting points).

Satu Miettinen: the writer is professor of applied art and design at the Univeristy of Lapland.