That there are so many different approaches when designing something is very interesting to me, because even though it does feel obvious I do at the same time think it is something one might not reflect over as a regular user. At first glance I felt that user centered design would be the most widely used approach, but the more I thought about and read on I realised that this might actually not be the case. But not only is usability very hard to define it is also hard to measure. When reading the texts about how to measure usability and the one trying to define guidelines for what user centered design is I realise how hard it is to actually make something which is usable.
In our group’s case I still believe that making the user a part of our design process would be ideal. But going as far as to having a solely user centered design process would not be possible in my opinion, mostly due to the time that would require, my desire would however be to involve the users as much as possible when making decisions during our project and having them in mind. The user group and main idea we have discussed using during this project does however also make activity-centered design an approach worth looking at and discussing. I also consider personas a good method of information structuring to try during our project since we will have very specifically different kinds of users to take into consideration and I would also like us to be able to make some sort of observation of a group at our museum.
Question for the seminar: Would it be easy for you yourself to specify when you would find something usable? Or would it be easier to pinpoint when you think something has bad usability?
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