Jarod I am sorry you feel it is somehow disrespecting the work you and others have been doing.
I don't think I am, it is not an all out attack on UCD proponents but a critique of the practice of UCD in general. You say that is has been proven that UCD delivers ROI but measured up against what? I for one am not talking about not involving users, I am just talking about involving them differently than the normal UCD process do, for reasons I have already outlined and that you are welcome to critique if you find them to be wrong. No one is talking about not having the user involved in the process but simply that the user in the UCD in general is involved the wrong places. Places that don't IMO actually give any proper indications of what is is testing for the final product because there is a disconnect between the propotype (often paper and static) and the actual final product. Furthermore I do find it interesting and disturbing that most people who are proponents of the UCD process are academic people who don't actually do the final design themselves inhouse which no matter how you turn it around obviously creates a problematic favoring of the UCD process rather than a more holistic understanding (not just view) of the design process in general. UCD to often becomes a consultancy position rather than an actual position of creation. If you fell that is somehow disrespecting you then I am sorry, but that is how I have come to see the UCD business with my only 14 years of experience in this field. But if the model is broken which I feel it is, I feel it's also my obligation to raise the issues as I see them. If you or others can show that it's not like what I am describing then by all means argue for why I am wrong instead of fuming and questioning my experience in the field. Just because I don't write a thousand blogposts and have podcasts does not mean I don't know what I am talking about. I just spend my time on different things than you. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=45640 ________________________________________________________________ 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
