Figuring out & formatting the real&root problems and figure out how to solve it in solid way ( whether it be called by some guy as ucd or not)
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Kelvin Dai <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, I am a graduate student at Stanford doing a course project for > a design consultancy startup. We are trying to understand how to > effectively promote the user centered design process (or the buzzword > "design thinking") to potentially unaware clients. > > During my internship at Google as a user experience researcher, I > recall we used different methods to accomplish a similar goal, such > as inviting engineers and PMs to the usability lab observation room, > designing and promoting posters and brochures about user personas, > and having sessions for engineers and users to have conversation > face-to-face. Also we think that IDEO gave a nice example by their > "deep dive" TV show. > > So, we would be interested in hearing more examples, ideas, and > stories from you. How do you tell people what you are doing everyday > as UX designer/researcher? How do you convince > engineers/PMs/stakeholders/clients that the user-centered design is > the right way to go? They are very important to us as we are in our > "observation and understanding" stage. > > Thanks a lot for your time, and we hope to learn from your > experience! > > Best, > > Yusen Dai > MS, Management Science and Engineering > Stanford University > 650-575-9382 > [email protected] > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- http://designforuse.blogspot.com/ ________________________________________________________________ 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
