2009年9月14日星期一

UCD or not, that's a problem

Truth is constant and can be described, with the description changes over time; it can be expressed, with the expression changes over time.
UCD or not becomes hot and discussed, named and re-named these days. Some claim that UCD means user's direct involve (as traditional definition means and practices), some claim it could only be the design focus. As time goes, we could say they are not very different from designer mind-set view. Like for a search product designer, he may analyze the log, take some data metrics, but there's user behind the data and he tries to understand user's behavior, mind-set and mental model. It centers on the user ( neither data nor tech, data/tech driven are very problematic method, if it's really practiced, instead it should be driven by user studies/researches).

For IxD or UCD, we could make the questions simpler
  1. do it need users' direct involve or not?
  2. do the design focus on user or not? if not, is there design focus or not? and if yes, what's the center or focuses ?
  3. could we give some cases for clarification ( like, iPod, PageRank, etc )
By arranging some a list of questions, we could march to the "truth" while putting the name aside for a while.

2009年9月13日星期日

Everyday Life Search

As part of LwO, it intends to examine how search interact with our everyday life, change our behavior of learning & living.

2009年9月5日星期六

If i'm writtng a book on search user interface design

i'll start with user stories, e.g., a guy who want to study a topic, a guy seeking for a path from zurich to bern, and a guy who want to figure out interesting places around chengdu, as well as a guy who want to plan a interesting weekend with his family, etc.
And continue with the problem behind the scenarios, and current solutions to the problems, and deep into the core of the problems, etc.
Then, i'll figure out the application and research advances in this domain,together with background theory and so on.
And I'll back with previous scenarios by envisioning a better life for the future with the possible advances in near or far future.

Yes, i'm reading the search user interface , it's good but could be great.