Talk:Usage-centered design

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[edit] Notable?

I've always considered this just to be Constantine and Lockwood's way to market their user-centered design techniques. If we can't come up with sources showing some general usage of the phrase, I think it should be deleted, with any useful material merged into user-centered design or similar, relevant articles. --Ronz 02:26, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

In my opinion the concepts "usage-centered design" and "user-centered design" belong to different concept levels. Usage-centered design is an exact design methodology consisting of a number of known steps. This term belongs to the same category as "contextual design" does. On the other hand, user-centered design is an overall design philosophy including some basic design principles. A Google search for "usage-centered design" returns 27 700 entries. Actually there are more people who use this methodology or who are close to it, but not everyone explicitly call it like this. I'm not sure, but it may even be a registered trademark. Anyway, it does exist. Nahrihra 00:01, 28 February 2007 (UTC)