User Needs
- Need to take into account what people are good and bad at in the context of scope and actors
- Consider what might help people in the way they currently do things
- Think through what might provide quality user experiences
- Listen to what people want and get them involved
- Use tried and tested user centric methods
How To Design
Finding out the target audience
Creating a aesthetic user experience
Finding out activities being carried out
Tasks & Goals
Point of user interaction
Finding out the target audience
Optimising the interactions users have with a product
Matching users' activities and needs
Usability / Habitability concerns
Which Kind of Design
Number of other terms used to emphasize what is being designed, e.g.,
- User interface design, software design, user centric design, product design, web design, experience design user experience(UX)
- Interaction design is sometimes used as the umbrella term covering all of these aspects
- Fundamental to all disciplines, fields, and approaches concerned with researching and designing computer-based systems for people