[IxDA Discuss] Rationale for *not* using UCD

[Donna Maurer]

There is a huge difference between using a formal, defined UCD process 
and being user-centred.

Many of my little projects don't have a formal UCD element (I don't do 
ethnography, make personas, write scenarios, do participatory design 
sessions or usability test) but that doesn't mean I don't know anything 
about the users or think about them. And it doesn't mean the result is 
awful. Sometimes it is truly not worth the effort.

E.g I bet most of the bloggers here didn't do a UCD process before 
starting. I bet you set up and started writing ;) And it doesn't mean 
your blogs are unusable...

Donna

maya gorton wrote:
> The only reason i can think of to not use UCD is that you want
> something done fast and cheap and that -- as the name implies -- your
> users are not a priority.
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Donna Maurer
Maadmob Interaction Design
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