Journey To The Center Of Design

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Quoting Whitney Hess paraphrasing Jared Spool on the growing inadequacy of hard-line user centered design philosophy.

Last year at IA Summit 2008, Jared Spool declared that it was time for us to retire the dogma of user-centered design, citing that the most effective design teams don’t follow a specific methodology, but instead have a whole toolbox of techniques and tricks to use when the time is right.

view Jared’s slides here: Journey To The Center Of Design

WikiDashboard and the Living Laboratory

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More evidence on why the current techniques of user-centered design need an overhaul.

Artificially created environments such as in-lab studies are only capable of telling us behaviors in constrained situations. In order to understand how users behave in varied time and place, contexts and other situations, we need to systematically re-evaluate our research methodologies.

via: Augmented Social Cognition @ PARC