April 12, 2013

Designing for Idealized Usage

Khoi Vinh:

Sometimes a designer doesn’t completely account for the reality of how a solution or product will be used, and instead designs around a set of requirements that seem to be fully representative of the problem at hand, but are actually narrower in scope.

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