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User-centered design

A design approach based on the principle that design should be tailored not to the convenience of developers (that is, all parties involved in developing a product or service) but to the convenience of users. In line with this principle, user participation and user research, among other things, are used as important means.

User-centered vs. human-centered

Jef Raskin distinguishes between user-centered design and human-centered design, and emphasizes the importance of human-centered design.

These days, the two terms are generally used almost as if they were synonyms (indeed, even Donald Norman at some point quietly started using the term “human-centered”), but originally that was not the case.

Reference: User-centered and human-centered

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