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Andrew Aikens

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From The Endless Battle by Alan Cooper

Prototyping-and-testing is a very useful pedagogical tool. A student of interaction design needs to learn how human users react to programmed behavior and there is no better hands-on method than writing something interactive and then watching users flail, misinterpret, and curse your work. But just because something is good for training doesn’t mean it’s effective in the real world. Unfortunately, few students today ever learn the lesson that, in the commercial world, the drawback…

From The Endless Battle by Alan Cooper

…ikes it because it never rocks the boat. Developers like it because it rarely requires big changes. You can think of prototype-and-test as institutionalized, professional, sanctioned “faster-horsing.”

From The Endless Battle by Alan Cooper

…f generative effort, and testing prototypes in front of users seems a lot like being user-centered. Unfortunately, the whole notion of learning about, understanding, and analyzing the user has been reduced to a few platitudes and maybe a poster on the wall. It becomes a designer-centered process instead.

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I’d really like to see the data on queer relationships too.

Liz Shavers

Interesting piece.

Duane Brown

Passing in the Valley

Matt Hackett