User-Centered Design for Research:Following our Own Recommendations

Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Design Research and Education (ICADRE14)

Year: 2014
Editor: Edwin Koh, Victor Shim, Tan Woei Wan, Ian Gibson, Andi S. Putra
Author: Saucken, Constantin von; Lindemann, Udo
Institution: Technical Universtity Munich (TUM), Germany
Section: User-Centred Design
Page(s): 118-122
DOI number: 10.3850/978-981-09-1348-9_032
ISBN: 978-981-09-1348-9

Abstract

The core idea of user-centered design is to understand your user and design a product accordingly: making it easy, fast and intuitive to understand. But we observe that scientists often forget these recommendations themselves: They write highly text-heavy papers, books and guidelines that do not meet their user’s (the designers) needs. Designers must design for their customers, so consistently researchers need to design research documentation for designers. In this paper we discuss the basic idea of user-centered design as well as corresponding methods and transfer them to the field of scientific research. Two industrial case studies clarify the application.

Keywords: User-Centred Design