User Centred Design Part 1

It’s easy to explain what is the UCD is simply: design for the user, thinking, dreaming, sleepping, and again thinking about and with the user. All starts by saying that the user is a person, a human, a unique human being with a culture and traditions.


In order to applies this method we need to:

1.Specify the context of use of the system or product that we want to design.
2.Specify the requirements
3.Create design solutions
4.Make a design evaluation



The user centred design has some bennefits like:

Start a true relationship between the people and the products

It’s a persuasive tool that is used to communicate what you want

Allow us to observe the user behavior


O’ Brien (2006) said us that Stephen Pheasant (Royal Free Hospital of London, Ergonomist) was the person that develop the UCD principles.




In the next post we well talk about this UCD principles....