What You Should Know About User-Center Designs?

 What You Should Know About User-Center Designs? 

User-centered design

According to UCD in a Sentence (n.d.), It is a process for developing an interactive system, ISO 13407 (1999), meaning that a human center design is an approach to interactive system development that focuses on making the system usable, and having multi-disciplinary activity. It is also considered the user interface design process that focuses on usability goals, user characteristics, environment, tasks, and workflow in in the design of an interface (UCD in a Sentence, n.d.). Furthermore, it relates to methods and techniques for analysis, design, and evaluation of mainstream hardware, software, and web interface (UCD in a Sentence, n.d.).  In addition, its process is an iterative process, where design and evaluation steps are built in from the first stage of projects, through implementation (UCD in a Sentence, n.d.).

The right approach of the user-center’s design

According to Zoltowski, C. B., Oakes, W. C., & Cardella, M. E. (2012, January) and Krippendorff (2006, p. 230) identifies three features shared by different human-centered design methods, for example, design method that employs both divergent and convergent thinking, and the processes are concerned with how the stakeholders themselves attribute meaning through the use of the proposed design and the methods include prototypes and other ways for the stakeholders to test the design ideas themselves since a projected future cannot yet be observed. It is also important; however, utilizing human-centered design processes have been shown to increase productivity, improve quality, reduce errors, reduce training and support costs, improve people’s acceptance of new products, enhance companies’ reputations, increase user satisfaction and reduce development costs (Damodaran, 1996; Maguire, 2001 and Zoltowski, C. B., Oakes, W. C., & Cardella, M. E., 2012, January). On the other hand, the poor design of the site also prompted many users to abandon their task and either call for an appointment, which took a toll on the receptionist, or decide to go to another spa altogether. However, the transformation of the website will align with excellent techniques, using the state-of-the-art artistic work to develop a friendly and easy to use website that executes high performance, and advance techniques align with the development and progress of the plan, and the plan introduces a general acceptance. According to Zoltowski, C. B., Oakes, W. C., & Cardella, M. E. (2012, January), the human-centered design processes and methodologies which have emerged in recent years share a focus on the users and other humans in the design process, they differ in their motivations and how the user/humans are involved; yet, Damodaran (1996) describes a continuum of the user involvement in human centered design from informative, through consultative, to participative; yet,  it is important to explore the customers and their environment through

ethnographic inquiry, and then building working models to capture that information.

The user-centered design description for best practices

It innovates strategic planning for the website redesign for a local spa. The reason of this plan is to redesign the website in a different way that will transform the rudimentary basic principles to more advanced techniques. In addition, the plan is developed to create a systematic, intelligent process, evaluate, specify concepts for devices, or processes, function or satisfying a specified set of constraints” (Dym, Agogino, Eris, Fey and Leifer, 2005, and Zoltowski, C. B., Oakes, W. C., & Cardella, M. E., 2012, January). For the purpose of the website is to align it with proficiency, efficiency and accessibility, according to Zoltowski, C. B., Oakes, W. C., & Cardella, M. E. (2012, January), the philosophy of the redesign is to develop an effective design, using professional skills needed for human-centered design to be created, an understanding of the ways in which users understand and experience human-centered design is needed, and the human-centered approaches to design contribute to innovations in engineering design and have been shown to increase productivity, improve quality, reduce errors, improve acceptance of new products, and reduce development costs. Therefore, the strategic plan will defuse the confusion of customers, decrease administrative work for office staff, allow customers to schedule service from the service page, and transform different issues related to identifying a validation and implementation, focusing on nonexistent or wrong services being scheduled, products, services, environments, organizations, and modes of interaction; in addition, the processes included multi-disciplinary collaboration in order to make products and services useful, usable, and desirable (Zoltowski, C. B., Oakes, W. C., & Cardella, M. E, 2012, January).

References

UCD in a Sentence (n.d.). In 3WC. Retrieved October 28, 2016, from             https://www.w3.org/WAI/redesign/ucd

Zoltowski, C. B., Oakes, W. C., & Cardella, M. E. (2012, January). Students' Ways of Human-    Center Design. Journal of Engineering Education/Southern New Hampshire          University, 101(1), 28-59-39.