Researching and communicating the complexity of IT image management

  • Authors:
  • Jenny Shirey;Ann Charng;Quynh Nguyen

  • Affiliations:
  • Citrix Systems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA;Citrix Systems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA;Citrix Systems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA

  • Venue:
  • Communication Design Quarterly Review
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Today, the process of image management is extremely time-consuming for IT administrators. Until now, this complicated process has not been extensively explored by design researchers. During a recent research study at Citrix, we interviewed 17 IT professionals. We used a process we call "adaptive interviewing," a flexible methodology that could accommodate the various infrastructures of IT organizations and the diversity of ways that administrators handle image management. While conducting our interviews, we worked with our information designer to create several visualizations of our data. Ultimately, we found that supplementing interviews with information visualizations is a powerful way to explore, understand, and explain the complex system of IT image management.