Katie said: "In this context, I'd like to not see the word "user" used since it apparently differentiates practitioners and the lay public from one another."
I agree. "User" has some bad connotations too, at least in English ... drug user, so-called friends who are "users" ... etc. You don't want to stir up any cognitive dissonance. A small sign hangs on my wall, a quote from Henry David Thoreau's "Where I Lived, and Why I Lived There." It says this: "Simplify." That's good advice for World Usability Day, which I suspect from Susie's description is more designer-centered than user-centered. Sounds like they are in desperate need of clarifying their intent. If I ruled the World Usability Day, I'd want to *listen* to what users tell me and immediately *demonstrate* how good design can make their very specific circumstances better -- which might make it something more like World Usability Week or Month, in more practical terms. But it would get the point across. I think it was SitePoint that recently sponsored a web design contest among competing design teams challenged to redesign a site in a day. I didn't pay attention to the results, but that's the kind of thing that really shows people what you're about. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=24918 ________________________________________________________________ *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
