I may be mixing this up with something else, but didn't user-centered design start as a method that actually involved users in the design process? I have vague memories of a story involving a Scandinavian country and something like city planning?
-xian- On Nov 29, 2007 10:01 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The process you describe is too narrow, in my view, to "define" UCD. > > Not everyone uses personas, for example, or use only interviews > (ethnographic observation, eye tracking, all kinds of stuff is also used). > > > User-Centered Design is just what it says it is -- designing from an > understanding of intended users at the center, rather than putting > individual 'vision' or committee guesswork at the center. This is > something that hasn't always been taken for granted (and in many circles > still isn't). > ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
