[IxDA Discuss] iPhone Keynote

[Esteban Barahona]

isn't that UCD (User Centered Design?) at the extreme?

now seriously, Apple's method may not be great, but it works. I haven't paid
for Apple products (though soon will), but still I see this company somewhat
clearly. The Macintosh is the best PC, more than because of their effort,
because ALL the rest PC world is worst. And that is a shame. It's truly a
shame and pathetic.

The only 2 Operating Systems I've used are... time-wasters, unstable,
unreliable, ugly, incosistent, or a combination of these. The only hardware
that I've used isn't that bad... but some errors are way too creepy (like a
dvd-rw drive functioning great on the OS but not accepting a cd for boot,
even ejecting the cd after insertion!). A Mac has to be different (if not,
then there's almost no hope for computing), but still it haves its glitches
(no sub-$1000 upgradable PC? ...for the paranoid: TPM+iSight , the
hockey-mouse, etc).

2007/1/10, Allen Smith <al at mojofat.com>:
>
> "...Apple's extremely large influence and impeccable use of UCD"
>
> Can you cite any examples from this century of Apple employing UCD?
> I've always seen their design as Design By Dictator and thought they
> were rather proud that they didn't incorporate elements normally
> associated with UCD methodology into their process.  Is there a
> confusion here between UCD as it is practiced (and prosyltized), and
> creating a product that's easy to use?
>