>>> Dan Saffer wrote: You can object to the term, but that horse might have left the stable and you might have to let it go eventually. I see it all over this list and elsewhere now. Heck, even Jakob Nielsen has used it:
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/genius-designers.html But I'm a little tired of the semantics debate. We should prototype the messaging around our discipline on a wiki and be done with it, rather than have these debates crop up year after year. >>> - - - No horse has left any barn. I fundamentally disagree with the notion of a process being *either* user-centric or designer-centric. This is just so oversimplified as to be misleading. All good design is done in the service to the product and the end user. And no one process or approach owns user-centricity. As for the importance of whether Jakob Nielsen has repeated this term, well, I would disagree that this means the matter is settled. I suppose I can understand why someone coining a term would like to see the debate over and done with, but it's not quite that simple. As long as loaded terminology is employed (and let's be honest - there is much rhetorical loading to a great deal of the terminology and labels used in the design field), we will have disagreement. These debates are going to continue to crop up, as long as terminology such as "genius design," and "ego-centric" are used to label individual or small expert team efforts that don't incorporate what's being labeled "user-centered design." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=24685 ________________________________________________________________ *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
