Saved by Mo Shafieeha
Human-Centered Design Dies at Launch
Designing products that address fundamental user problems is what UX and product design have always meant to me. We ought to think of usable and useful products as providing the most of what user experience entails; foremost of all, meeting user needs. Because of this, it is important to understand product thinking.
Chelsi N. • Enterprise Design Thinking- a new perspective
Great software products aren’t simply a collection of buttons, icons, and menus. They shape how we think and who we aspire to be.
The problem isn’t that machines are becoming more human-like, it’s that humans are becoming more machine-like in an effort to keep up.
There are no shortcuts to hard-won insight.
No one does this in a snap.
But it’s hard to ... See more
The problem isn’t that machines are becoming more human-like, it’s that humans are becoming more machine-like in an effort to keep up.
There are no shortcuts to hard-won insight.
No one does this in a snap.
But it’s hard to ... See more
even well-meaning companies accidentally get trapped in survival mode. A business is started to solve a problem. But if the problem were truly solved, that business would no longer be needed!
Derek Sivers • Anything You Want
Finally, UCD’s focus on “successful” experiences obscures possibilities that lie outside of predetermined success metrics, preventing us from designing for uncertainty, failure, or experimentation in the ways we might.
Lis Hubert • Camera Obscura: Beyond the lens of user-centered design
This can lead to developing products that are technically impressive or aesthetically pleasing, but that don’t resonate with users because they don’t solve a significant problem or improve people’s lives in a meaningful way.