Summary of first lesson

User Centered Design is a design process that focuses on the users experience of the product, as opposed to concentrating upon only the the goals of the product itself.


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from handouts
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Specify the context of use
Identify who will use the product.
Identify what they will use it for.
Identify under what conditions they will be using it.

Specify Requirements
Identify business requirements and user goals that must be met for the product to be successful.
Create Design Solutions
This part of the process may be done in stages, building from a rough concept to a complete design.

Evaluate Designs
The most important part of this process is that evaluation - ideally through usability testing with actual users - is as integral as quality testing is to good software development.


The four D's of design should be used at all stages of the process:
Define
Decide
Design
Deliver
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