[IxDA Discuss] MacBook Air

[Nasir Barday]

Well, there's the UCD process, and a user-centered approach. Semantics.

Dan Saffer's *Designing for Interaction *considers formal UCD as well as a
few other methodologies, including "genius design." The main differentiator
is that UCD depends on validation at each and every iteration, which, you
both seem to agree, isn't the only way to go.

A design informed by research, with all the proper interpretations (i.e.
knowing what/who/how to ask), is not exclusively in the realm of the UCD
process. But whatever process you go with, the result can still be
"user-centered"

Formal definition:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_centered_design

Don't have the book at my desk to quote from, but you can get a little bit
of what I'm saying from the reviews here:
http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Interaction-Creating-Applications-Devices/dp/0321432061/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200512893&sr=1-2

- Nasir