Talk:Participatory design

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Is this about design of software, design of clothing, design of buildings, or what? And why the capital letter "D" in "Design", rather than lower-case? Michael Hardy 18:25, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I moved the above comment here from the main article. I hope I answered the question with the small rewrite I did. Actually I think it could apply to design of anything, since it's more of a general procedure or principle to involve the user.

I did the rewrite because it was almost word for word from the website I added as an External link, the very first Google hit. This looks like an excellent topic, and this stub should be a good start. I left the capital in Design for now because it was that way on the web site, although that may be just because it was title case. Spalding 22:10, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Jargon sentence cut

Jargon sentence cut from article: "Participatory design is often associated with emancipation of end-users." Jargon-y enough to make it vacuous. If someone has something to say here, say it clearly. - Jmabel | Talk 01:29, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge with User-design

Participatory design seems to be a common industry term. I haven't heard of User-design. The hyphen format doesn't make a whole lot of sense either. The [google results] are low compared to part. design and the results are for the non-hyphenated term. Clubmarx | Talk 17:59, 30 April 2006 (UTC)