User-Centered Design
User-centered design (UCD) is an approach to product development that actively involves the users of a product in its design process. In user-centered design, specific efforts are made to obtain the user community's perspective, in addition to the input from the technical staff and the product experts.
Successful Web sites and applications permit the user to accomplish the user's own objectives in using them.
During the Web design and development, the design team needs to learn:
- User objectives for the product
- Existing user paradigms and knowledge
- Details of what users want and expect in the product
- What will appeal aesthetically to the product's users
Usability Services helps design teams obtain the user's perspective.
For more information, contact:
Alice de la Cova
Usability Services Manager
Phone: (612) 624-9365
E-mail: a-dela@umn.edu