Lately a lot of senior folks seem to be railing on user-centered design. Now, I thought UCD was the idea of putting the users in the center of the design choices. To do that, you can do it with a bunch of methodologies, or visit the users in their native habitat then keep them in mind later, or invite them to pick up a pencil and draw you some interfaces somewhere along the way. And none of these seem like a particularly bad practice when done in context of what you are trying to accomplish. With search, everyone is your user and you do search log analysis and a-b testing, when you design an internal ap you talk to your users, design for them and htey get to sign off. Consumer internet for multiple user types can often benefit from research, user segmentation and various sorts of testing. Sometimes personas are usful, sometimes task analysis... sometimes self-gratification is the right call when you and the user are the same. It's all UCD to me. So why the backlash? It feels like a backlash against love songs, sandwiches or democracy.
Or perhaps I'm merely semanticly sloppy, and the backlash is against the 32 step persona to particpatory prototype system(TM)? On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Jared Spool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We've started sharing some of it in our presentations (such as in my IA > Summit keynote here: http://is.gd/3ynf). > > ________________________________________________________________ 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
