Jarod, > Persona just reflects human ( human with motivation and goals in specific > context), and activities reflects what/how they do, isnt it?
The point I am trying to make is that Activity Theory output is the activity and actions of individuals. The Persona acts as a stereotype between real users and the designer. There may be a problem with Activity Theory been dry. One can see from this discussion that people don't understand it. But the advantage that it has got is that it has got a theory. And it is based on the behaviour of individuals. Activity Theory has allot of problems, and don't think it is ideal, but at least it does have a theory to back it self up with. James On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Jarod Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Dave, > > Your answer inspires. > Maybe, more proper is back from the result, by asking what leads to > the good design instead of UCD or ACD? I do like the IxD , in which > the design is for good user experience, and by analyzing user's > activity. > > regards, > Jarod > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:56 AM, David Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oy! I'm just going to ignore that Doc thing. > > > > To answer Adrian, > > If I were to design Flickr from an ACD POV I only care about the > > activities of uploading, tagging, sharing, viewing, mapping, etc. > > I really don't care whether primary persona A's goal for sharing is > > to become the next Annie Leibovitch or not. > > > > If I were designing it from a UCD perspective, I do care, or that the > > person is elderly and needs large print, or any other demographic type > > information. > > > > personally, I think ACD = backwards IxD. It is going back to that > > nasty realm of usability-based IxD where aesthetics, emotion and > > story telling (can't tell a good story w/o good characters) are core > > elements of good IxD. > > > > So I'm less concerned with is ACD X or Y, but rather, should I care. > > > > -- dave > > > > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > > Posted from the new ixda.org > > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=35466 > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > > > -- > http://designforuse.blogspot.com/ > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ________________________________________________________________ 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
