[Sigia-l] Human-Centered Design 99% bad

[Boniface Lau]

> From: Alexander Johannesen
>  
> Now let me put this in a very clear way : I do not believe that HCD
> is about tools adapting to users *because* there is no manual that
> states "HCD basic belief is tools adapting to user";

On such basic issue, experienced HCD practitioners would refer to
their own experience, instead of a manual, to decide whether they
would be a believer. If they decided to be a non-believer, they would
remain so even when faced with a manual containing such statement.
That is because one's experience has much more authority than that of
a manual, _if_ one is indeed an experienced HCD practitioner. Thus,
basing one's belief on the absence of a manual is a dead giveaway that
such self-proclaimed HCD practitioner is not as experienced as
claimed.


> 
> On what "authority" can you claim what HCD is and is not about? 

On the authority of being me. I speak for myself and express what I
believed to be the reality.


> My assertion, being a HCD guy, is that HCD is quite fuzzy on this
> very issue. 

The larger is a population, the less likely everyone will agree on
something. But if you care to look around, you will see that a widely
shared characteristic within the HCD population is the belief of
adapting to user.


> Where does yours come from?

As if you are going to judge what I say based on where they come from?
Judge the validity of what people say independent of the source.


Boniface