UX designers may not be able to provide a singular definition of UCD, but I'm not sure that 10 doctors treating cancer would be able to come up with a singular approach to treatment, either. I think it depends on the problem and context (patient and cancer type, stage, funds, etc.), just as for it would for a UX professional.
Furthermore, there's probably a difference in the type of doctor who's asked to treat the cancer. I've been thinking lately that some of the difficulties in defining terms in the UX profession has more to do with the type of the professional being asked the question, than with the terms in the question itself. If you asked 10 psychologists what's the best treatment for depression, you'd probably get 15 different answers too, because the question doesn't take into account which psychologists are cognitive psychologists or child psychologists, and which are family counselors or university researchers. In a similar way as UCD vs ACD, for some psychological treatments, such as addiction, an immediate solution to the problem is to break the addiction. If you're addicted to using X, stop doing X. This will treat the behavior, an activity-centered approach to addiction, but it probably won't help the patient for long. And, if you asked a psychologist what's the best way to break a person's addiction to X, there will probably be different responses to the best treatment option. Then again, the UX problems are not as complex as human psychology, and if the APA has the DSM...?? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=35466 ________________________________________________________________ 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
