The Unregistered Community design
User Centered Design. How to make it really work for users. UCD is a design methodology focusing on how real users will use systems to do real, useful work. Users are observed before design, in testing design ideas before implementation, and in evaluating and shaping the implementation through many iterative cycles, until the system works well for them. This is the methodology we plan to use for the AUI.
User Centered Design. User-centered design (UCD) is a modern, widely practiced design philosophy rooted in the idea that users must take center-stage in the design of any computer system. Users, designers, and technical practitioners work together to articulate the wants, needs, and limitations of the user and create a system that addresses these elements. Often, user-centered design projects are informed by ethnographic studies of the environments in which users will be interacting with the system