On Jun 1, 2012, at 4:52 AM, Terence Love wrote:
> ' How much do designers fall back onto designing by anthropomorphising
> situations?'
>
> 'Is the kind of behaviour described in the link explained only by
> anthropomorphising, or are their better or more foundational explanations
> that go deeper than anthropomorphic habituation?'
>
> All of these are potentially of use in research identifying better ways to
> design and better theories relating to designer and user's behaviours.
I agree with the last statement but there seems to be a pejorative edge to "anthropomorphic" here. (Maybe I'm just reading into it but "fall back onto" sounded dismissive.) I wouldn't assume that anthropomorphizing is always invalid for designers or users.
Gunnar
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