# 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.

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](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/Human-centered%20design.txt), 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](https://wiki.g15e.com/en/pages/User-centered%20vs.%20human-centered.txt)

## See also

- [Distorted user-centered design](https://wiki.g15e.com/en/pages/Distorted%20user-centered%20design.txt)