experts
Damn... I think I should stop thinking about thing on trams. It makes me go crazy.
The thing we talked about 'experts' in today's studies lecture started to bug me on the way home. Ordinary people becoming 'experts' and designers losing their expert status… Hmm… I still believe that designers were never the experts like users. I think they believed to be the experts and imposed those expert ideas onto user. I guess the movie “Kitchen Story” illustrate this fact. I know there are designers who are enthusiastic about one area and they are also an ‘expert user’, but after all, the product that they design for is the people who are going to use them.
Maybe, users are becoming better ‘experts’ in designing rather than passively using. With all the information about the product and how they are made and so on, users can start to think about improvement and the way to fix things in their own demands.
Then I stopped thinking…
Got off the tram and started to walk…
posted by Anonymous at 11:43 PM
3 Comments:
I also think as technology keeps on advancing forward some ideas that seemed impossible only a few years ago they are now a reality, and people are constantly updating stuff. So users can have their own ideas on how to improve things.
maybe that's the design process that we need to condiser in the future, a direct input from users. I know we do consider users' opinions to a certain extend, but I think thier place in design might get bigger and bigger.
It would be a good thing.
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