On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Jared Spool <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Aug 27, 2009, at 10:12 PM, Jarod Tang wrote: > > I'm afraid this will leads designers' work into a trap, if the designer >> really assumes the "tech driven is right". >> > > What is that trap? > Designer should fight for the empathy with end user, isn't it? Or other way? If designer try to base his design on this empathy, what the method should be called besides UCD or similar names ?
> > > But as a tactic, designer could avoid such fruitless discussion ( like, >> "No, xxx should be user needs/motivation driven instead of tech driven" ) , >> with a user centered driven mind-set in the core, and push the product >> development going. As the result, more than less, user centered driven >> methods will push tech's improvement as many designers found, which will >> convince tech/engineering side co-workers. >> > > I think *this* is a trap that is pretty bad. Whatever you considered > "user-centered driven methods" are likely to be expensive. That expense > isn't always justified for the results it will glean. In project design practice, UCD (or human needs driven ) could be in lightweight or other way as different designer (e.g., Alan Cooper also present lightweight persona building process in About Face, and designers really do like that), so the expense is not necessarily higher than other way. But I fully agree this, as any other design process or trick, doesn't mean definitely good result,which should be justified by real using process. > > > Understanding when that expense will return value and when it won't is part > of the process of good design management. > As above, there seems no conflict. But that's just from limited observation and experience. Cheers, -- Jarod -- 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
