My feeling is that one should flow from the other. That is, a good UCD will produce a good UX. One is contingent on the designer, and the other on the end-user.
We study our target audience, "speak their language," as you say, and design an interface between between their needs and our clients' offering. This whole interchange produces the user experience (UX). We are like translators, trying to facilitate communication and interaction between 2 parties. Because these 2 parties share a market relationship (supplier and consumer), we tend to focus on the needs of the consumer - "the customer is always right." This creates the need for UCD, which in my opinion is the extent of what we as designers can do to provide a quality UX to the end-user. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=47132 ________________________________________________________________ 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
