> > The bottom line for me is that UCD, or at least the way it's understood by > the non-design community, makes products better most of the time, period.
(Continuing my last post ...) UCD doesn't make things better. Designers do. I think that is what's understood by people outside the design world. I doubt most people care what we name our approach to design or even how we do it. But Peter's point is very valid—that we need lines drawn between types of design, at least to a degree. Industrial designers are very different than graphic artists, for example, and graphic artists are very different than interaction designers. I know this: I've never marketed myself as an "Activity-Centered Designer". I've marketed myself as an "interaction designer", a "user experience designer", and a "software designer". The questions about what I do usually stop after a basic explanation of that role. -r- ________________________________________________________________ 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
