On Jan 15, 2008 9:29 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If UCD is about things other than the user, why on earth is the term > called "user centered?" > Who cares?! Because it was better than "developer centered, marketing centered, designer centered, product management centered, etc"? UCD makes better products in the vast amount of projects in which it's used. That's a good thing. Are products technology centered or technology limited? Using technology for the sake of using technology is seldom a good idea - it has to provide some sort of value to the person using the thing. To figure out what's of value, you can either sit in a black hole and speculate, or you can go out and do some research and base it on that. Speculation doesn't always fail, but it does fail much more than basing design on the empirical evidence of how humans interact with things. My two cents. Jeff ________________________________________________________________ *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
