August 27th, 2005
Slightly provocative but exactly what I had in mind when I thought about the fact that we even need to learn to breath when we enter this world. It made sense for Microsoft and the rest of us to bundle Minesweeper and Solitaire in their Windows distributions. This way we learned how to use the mouse …
[...] Human-Centered Design Considered Harmful: “People do adapt to technology. It changes social and family structure. It changes our lives. Activity-Centered Design not only understands this, but might very well exploit it.Learn the activity, and the tools are understood. That%u2019s the mantra of the Human-Centered Design community. But this is actually a misleading statement, because for many activities, the tools define the activity. Maybe the reality is just the converse: Learn the tools, and the activity is understood.”[...]
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