Hi everyone,
Apologies I couldn’t reply to your posts sooner. Thank you very much for
posting your thoughts.
It is not that I doubt that design should always be user-centred but going
through some of the literature it seems that a section of researchers
believe that when we talk about design, we talk about nothing but
user-centred design. While it may be true for a particular discipline,
design is certainly not limited to user-centred design, it can be use
centred or system centred (as it used to be in early days) or engineering
centred as pointed out by Klaus.
However, my concern is not what the design activity focuses on; rather it is
what it means for the process of design (the second part of my post).
So, if design is certainly not limited to user-centred design, does it mean
that the process of design remains the same regardless of what is the focus
of design i.e. user-centred or use-centred or engineering centred?
And if so, should we not be thinking of user-centredness or use-centredness
or anything else as a design philosophy instead of a process? (e.g. user
centred design process?)
Thoughts?
parag deshpande
PhD candidate,
IDC, UL, Ireland
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