At 12:54 PM -0700 11/27/07, Robert Hoekman, Jr. wrote: > > good design is much more probable when some sort of user >> centered research (especially when designing for an audience other >> than yourself) is conducted. > > >I agree with the rest of what you said, but again, why *user* centered, as >opposed to activity-centered or something else? > >-r- >________________________________________________________________
Speaking for myself, here...because different people pursue the same activity in different ways. This generally tends to correlate to the "type" of user (not gonna get into the whole persona debate that directly...unh unh...not now). To use a really easy example: I write a check. I record the check in my register (because I'm such a good little girl). I have recorded a debit...if you asked me. But in my mind it's just keeping track of a check. I hand my bookkeeper the duplicates of all the checks I've written since last time. She takes each check and records the amount and the category and the date and all that other stuff and...she has now recorded a credit. But in her mind, she's just keeping track of expenditures. So, labelling may change for each user. Task categorization, likewise. And so on... Katie -- ------------------ Katie Albers User Experience Consulting & Project Management [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ 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
