On Oct 6, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr wrote:
ACD does not—I repeat, not—mean ignoring users. It means focusing on
their
activities instead of their goals. It means ignoring what Jenny
wants to be
when she gets out of college and focusing instead on how to create
an app
that helps her (and everyone else) complete the activities she needs
to
complete to get out of college.
Which works great until the goals change the activities.
That's where I've always been confused by the ACD stuff. (Such as
Jenny's desire to prop up her MCAT scores so she can get accepted to
Harvard Med, which may change the way she chooses courses and
professors from the college's class scheduling system.)
Nobody is suggesting that when you're using the non-ACD method
(whatever we wanna call that), that you take irrelevant facts into
account in the design process.
I've never understood how the design process is actually different
when you're doing the ACD thing.
Since clearing up my confusion is just a goal of mine, feel free to
ignore it. That way we can all focus on our activities. :)
Jared
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