On Oct 6, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Christina Wodtke wrote:
this may be the most notable
http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/human-centered.html
The trick to all this -- imho -- is understanding what a good designer
actually does. Regardless if that designer is designing cars, clothes,
products or systems.
Ultimately, good design is not about UCD, ACD, genius design,
waterfall, agile or whatever label you want to put it on. Those are
all marketing terms in the end, some trying to describe a process that
exists, while others are trying to define a process when one does not
exist because the people on the job are lacking in some respect. In
the latter case, there's usually an intention of creating some
baseline that often can't be met because what's lacking is simply good
designers on the job.
Good designers consistently do two things:
1) Define and understand the problem in relevant terms
2) Solve the problem elegantly
Once you get that, the rest is just meddling for little value in return.
I've disliked the term UCD for so long because to even consider the
term, one has to reconsider what it is that I do as a designer at a
tactical level because the premise is that I don't know what it is
that I do. At best, the terms UCD and ACD are redundant to what is
already happening or should be happening. At worst, those labels
become misapplied marketing speak that does nothing but muddy the
waters.
--
Andrei Herasimchuk
Principal, Involution Studios
innovating the digital world
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