Figure It Out: Getting From Information to Understanding :: UXmatters
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Figure It Out: Getting From Information to Understanding :: UXmatters
► Understanding users' desires, needs, motivations, and contexts► Understanding business, technical, and domain opportunities, requirements, and constraints► Using this knowledge as a foundation for plans to create products whose form, content, and behavior is useful, usable, and desirable, as well as economically viable and technically feasible
Alan Cooper • About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design
Understanding is a cognitive function through which humans gather information from their environment in order to make sense of it and create a context in which they can interact with it. With a good understanding of the environment, humans are able to avoid dangers and take advantage of opportunities for food, reproduction, and shelter.
Why do users prefer certain design? Insights from the landscape theory
