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Role-Play Centered Design
User-centered design (UCD) is important. I hope I’ve been a good advocate for it during my career. Its basic tenet is that software should be constructed as much as possible according to how users...
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Example RPCD Interaction
In my last post on RPCD, I explained its key tenets. In this one, I’ll imagine one way to put it into practice. Suppose a team is chartered to build a tool that locates birth mothers of adopted...
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Long-Term Benefits of RPCD
In a previous post, I wrote about a methodology for designing software that has role-playing at its heart. If you take a look at the example RPCD interaction, I think some benefits will immediately...
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Users Aren’t The Only People In Your Software
I’m all for a healthy focus on HCI (Human-Computer Interaction), UCD (User-Centered Design), and UX (User eXperience). (See my post about role-play centered design, for example.) However, some insight...
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Progressive Disclosure Everywhere
If you google “progressive disclosure,” you’ll get hits that describe the phrase as an interaction design technique. UI folks have long recognized that it’s better to show a simple set of options, and...
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A Comedy of Carelessness
Act I The day after Thanksgiving I went on a long road trip to eastern Wyoming. Total driving time: about 7 hours, each way. At a gas station about 2 hours from home, on the way back, my credit card...
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Add some more extra redundancy again
It’s the season for coughs and sniffles, and last week I took my turn. I went to bed one night with a stuffy nose, and it got me thinking about software. What’s the connection between sniffles and...
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