ARTH 1100 Lecture 3: User Centric Design and Goals
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Systems that are responsive to user needs and goals. Alan cooper refers to the user centric design process a (cid:862)goal dire(cid:272)ted desig(cid:374). (cid:863) needs a(cid:374)d expectation of the persons that use a product, their behaviors, and goals are studied. Products artifacts are designed and tested within the domain of the modelled user and tested in the domain of the actual user. First commercial mp3 player 1997 by the south korean information systems company, saehan. Creati(cid:448)e la(cid:271)s" fora(cid:455) i(cid:374)to the mp3 pla(cid:455)er (cid:373)arket (cid:271)ega(cid:374) (cid:449)ith the creati(cid:448)e nomad in 2000. Their popular version, the zen was 4 years ahead of apple ipod. Background reading on mp3 players (ipod/ http://ipod. about. com/od/understandingipodmodels/a/invented- ipod. htm. Blackberry was named by fortune magazine as the fastest growing company in the world, with earnings exploding by 84% a year. Since 2009, bla(cid:272)kberr(cid:455)"s sto(cid:272)k pri(cid:272)e has (cid:272)ollapsed (cid:271)(cid:455) a (cid:448)ertigo- inducing 90% to under at its low point last summer. http://business. time. com.