From what I've read, there seems to a move away from having the *user* at the center of the design process to having the *use* of the system (or the interaction) at the center of the design process. To give credit to Larry Constantine, I think his term "Usage Centered Design" sums up what most interaction designers say that they do!
www.foruse.com is his website - although like many "senior folks" in the field it is kinda crap. Tim Disclaimer: I taught Larry's method "usage centered design" for a final year level university course for two consecutive years. Then I decided I should use the skills I was teaching and entered industry :) On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Christina Wodtke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Lately a lot of senior folks seem to be railing on user-centered design. > Now, I thought UCD was the idea of putting the users in the center of the > design choices. To do that, you can do it with a bunch of methodologies, or > visit the users in their native habitat then keep them in mind later, or > invite them to pick up a pencil and draw you some interfaces somewhere > along > the way. And none of these seem like a particularly bad practice when done > in context of what you are trying to accomplish. With search, everyone is > your user and you do search log analysis and a-b testing, when you design > an > internal ap you talk to your users, design for them and htey get to sign > off. Consumer internet for multiple user types can often benefit from > research, user segmentation and various sorts of testing. Sometimes > personas > are usful, sometimes task analysis... sometimes self-gratification is the > right call when you and the user are the same. It's all UCD to me. So why > the backlash? It feels like a backlash against love songs, sandwiches or > democracy. > > Or perhaps I'm merely semanticly sloppy, and the backlash is against the 32 > step persona to particpatory prototype system(TM)? > > On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Jared Spool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > We've started sharing some of it in our presentations (such as in my IA > > Summit keynote here: http://is.gd/3ynf). > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- Kei te kōrero tiki au. Kei te kōrero tiki koe. Ka kōrero tiki tāua. Kōrero ai tiki tāua. ________________________________________________________________ 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
