That's **your** question, Andrei. There have been a crazy amount of misconceptions about what UCD is not only in this thread, but in this organization since I've been one of the opinionated, most likely annoying, loud-mouthed participants. Sorry, everyone, BTW. :-)
Take the recent discussion about personas where people thought you could document your non-research based assumptions and call it a persona. It's not, plain and simple. It's something, it's a useful tool sometimes, but based on the long standing definition of a persona - it's not a persona. This seems incredibly simple to me, and its maddening to see all the discussion around stuff like this when there are definitions out there. The goal of this little project is to define UCD among other things, to help make the IxDA a more reputable organization? Are we sure we're not just proving that we just don't understand something our peers in other areas of UX have known and been agreeing on for years and years? Will that help establish our credibility, or take away from it? There's been stuff out there for decades saying "this is what UCD is". Andrei, even if the syntax of the term is not to your liking - it's a term with meaning. People understand it - potential clients, executives, etc. That is a good thing!! On Jan 22, 2008 3:15 AM, Andrei Herasimchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 21, 2008, at 11:27 PM, Jeff White wrote: > > > On Jan 21, 2008 7:28 PM, Gretchen Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Out of curiosity (I'm very confused by this thread) is the issue with > >> "user-centered" design the fear that it's somehow ignoring biz & > >> tech? > > > > No, the issue is that a bunch of really opinionated people can't seem > > to read and digest things that have been long established. Just my two > > cents :-) > > No... Coming from one of those opinionated people, the question is > simple: Is "User Centered Design" user centered or not? > > If the answer is yes, the user is truly the center of all things when > it comes to designing a product, then I posit that's a really > incomplete, poor way of designing anything since having the center of > the design process be on the user isn't always the right way to make > a decision or approach a design problem, for a variety of practical > reasons. > > If the answer is no, user centered design isn't always focused on the > user and the center of everything, then change change the damn label > already. > > I have no idea why that's controversial. > > > -- > Andrei Herasimchuk > > Principal, Involution Studios > innovating the digital world > > e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > c. +1 408 306 6422 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > *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 > ________________________________________________________________ *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
