Re:Some doubts about human-centered design
by TheOtherHobbes on Friday September 06, 2019 @07:29PM
(#20900791)
More of a fig leaf. It's more like "Profit Centred Design Optimised to Extract Maximum Value from Human Users."
Genuine Human Centred Design would create and enhance communities of interest with broader and more humane motivations than corporate profit-seeking.
Unsurprisingly it's rare in corporate projects, and in small-developer projects that ape corporate attitudes.
But it does exist outside of them.
Where I disagree is the notion that design has to be one or the other. I suspect it's more like a continuum, with the worst dark patterns at one extreme, and various not-for-profit empowering and educational apps and projects at the other - the ideal HCD project being a UI/UX that models and encourages humane, "clean", mutually beneficial, and non-exploitative interactions in a way that users instantly feel comfortable with and want to use.
Genuine Human Centred Design would create and enhance communities of interest with broader and more humane motivations than corporate profit-seeking.
Unsurprisingly it's rare in corporate projects, and in small-developer projects that ape corporate attitudes.
But it does exist outside of them.
Where I disagree is the notion that design has to be one or the other. I suspect it's more like a continuum, with the worst dark patterns at one extreme, and various not-for-profit empowering and educational apps and projects at the other - the ideal HCD project being a UI/UX that models and encourages humane, "clean", mutually beneficial, and non-exploitative interactions in a way that users instantly feel comfortable with and want to use.