The Fragility of Human-Centered Design is written for a specific audience: people who attempt to organize or conduct human-centered design (HCD). The principles of HCD appear to be simple: researchers and designers cooperate with users in their project, and organize iterative phases of research, design and evaluation, and multidisciplinary teamwork. The idea is to involve users from thestart of a project and throughout its iterative cycles. However, in practice it appears to be difficult to put these principles into practice. Often, usersare only involved at the end of a project or little is done with what they say. The main question is: what happens in human-centred design practice and howdoes this differ from the theory and principles of human-centred design? The author’s attempt was to open the ‘black box’ of HCD; to study what practitioners, including himself, actually do in practice. This publication is an attemptto ‘deconstruct’ HCD; to draw attention to some of its qualities that are usually hidden, and to propose alternative practices.
- ISBN: 978-1-58603-941-7
- Editorial: Ios Press
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 01/12/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés