Maybe there's more to this than user-centered design?

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Maybe there’s more to this than user-centered design? Francis Rowland European Bioinformatics Institute EuroIA 2014 @francisrowland http://ebiinterfaces.wordpress.com

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Slides that accompanied the lightning talk I gave at EuroIA 2014, in Brussels. I published a short blog article at the same time, to accompany it See http://ebiinterfaces.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/euroia-2014-and-activity-diagrams/ It might help you make sense of these 5 slides, at least, and you can download an activity diagram template.

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Maybe there’s more to this than user-centered design?

Francis Rowland European Bioinformatics Institute

EuroIA 2014

@francisrowland http://ebiinterfaces.wordpress.com

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UX design ≠ user-centered design

Don’t worry, that’s not heresy

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Consider “lenses” other than UCD through which to view your work

Activity-centered design might be a

useful place to start…

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A little less conversation, a little more action

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Activity Diagram (kind of like a persona)

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A problem of scalability in complex environments?

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What activities do you need to support and design for?

Think about the ecology that you are designing for