Friday, March 2, 2012

The Three Lenses of Human Centered Design

The HCD process examines starts with the people being designed for, examining thier needs, dreams, and behaviors. The process steps through the following 'lenses':

  1. Desirability - What do people desire?
    eg. Rocket pants, space cars, unicorns, and sporks. To be desired something dosen't necessarily have to be feasible, which brings us to...
  2. Feasibility - What is technically and organizationally feasible?
    And now we have to cross rocket pants, space cars, and unicorns off the list, leaving us to examinine the viability of sporks.
  3. Viability - What can be financially viable?
    So, I am assuming the spork business is pretty competative and covered by many interenational patents and we're back to the drawing board.
In summation:







































<source: IDEO HCD Toolkit>

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