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edgewise '99
Edgewise '99
Top 10 Things To Know And Do in User-Centered Design

User-Centered Design: From Thought to Product
 
Top 10
(These are taken from the slides, and definitely miss not being presented in person with all the attendant arm-waving.)

Top 10 Things To Know and Do in User-Centered Design


10
Read Donald Norman's
The Design of Everyday Things

9
Study users before you design

8
Users are smarter than you think

7
Users are dumber than you think

6
Believe in The Process
(corollary: user-centered design is team-based design)

5
Your client advocate can't be your user advocate
(corollary: the marketers and biz people don’t speak for your users)

4
Acknowledge the entire experience

3
Users have lives

2
You are not your user

1
There is no monolithic "user”