On 10/7/08, Jeff White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Personally, I love UCD, even if we as a design community don't/can't agree > on what it really means. All it has meant in my career is this: > > I can go to a project stakeholder, engineer, or executive, say the words > "User Centered Design" and they have somewhat of an idea of what that means. > Which more or less is that we'll end up w/ a better result if we get to know > the human beings actually using our products and design based on what we > find out, while still mixing that process with technological constraints and > business objectives. I've never had a stakeholder (or a designer) say: > "UCD?! No! That means we won't consider any other factors besides just what > the user needs!!" or "No! That means we can't sketch or prototype, or write > web standard front end code". Come on, people :)
Yes, yes, yes! Finally, there is light at the end of the tunnel...did I say tunnel, I meant thread...yes thread. :-) > The bottom line for me is that UCD, or at least the way it's understood by > the non-design community, makes products better most of the time, period. I > really don't care whether or not the definition of UCD includes sketching, > modeling or prototyping, or if the design community wants to get into > semantic debates about what it is and isn't. Not just for you, this is the bottom line for many many of us. The semantic debates points to just one thing, that perhaps the external world has an instinctive grasp of UCD which we are not comfortable with (?). All I know is that as a body of professionals involved in the common good, we have got to stop questioning our selves on what we do, how we do it, what we call ourselves and what roads best lead to the goal. -Adamya ________________________________________________________________ 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
