Re: Heresy!

Hi Ralph,

Of course it does not. There is lots of interactive art which is not in
any way based on user research. It still takes interaction design to
design interactive products. I would even go so far as to argue that
interaction design is always done when an interactive product is
developed, but it is not always done by an "interaction designer". And
this might be what you are looking for. I would gess that most people
who call themselves "interaction designers", as opposed to "artists" or
"system developers" have at least one foot in user centered design.

/Johan

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From: User-centred design, user interface design, web design, HCI and
usability [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lord, Ralph
Sent: den 12 september 2003 17:00
To: [email protected]
Subject: Heresy!


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Here's what I really want to discuss:

"Does Interaction Design have to be user-centered?"

In doing a little googling on the matter, it seems that most people
define interaction design as requiring some kind of user research, CI,
ethnography, whatever.  But is that a characteristic of ID or just
user-centered ID? What about ID that is based on existing use-cases,
actor lists, and such from the development team or the analysts. Does
that qualify?

Ralph Lord

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