UCD, Agile or whatever the next process that comes into fashion (FrAgile?), my concern is that these processes may stagnate innovation. In all I've read about UCD, largely neglected is how a UCD process helps foster innovation or creativity.
UCD processes are structural, cognitive frameworks for advancing a product from abstract specifications to a concrete form; they provide constraints that streamline and focus decision making. But the procedures are not necessarily the only vehicle for creation of a product, nor do they guarantee the right level of ideation/creativity that can lead to innovation and product success. And there's no proof that a product won't succeed if UCD isn't followed. I find I'm more interested in the principals from which the UCD process was derived rather than strict adherence to UCD as the only way to apply those principals. I simply can't picture UCD as _the_ means for product innovation - after all, isn't innovation a process in and of itself? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=45169 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
