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When Not to Follow User-Centered Design Techniques




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Riffing on the topic, to feed into the discussion




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Portigal Consulting is a
    bite-sized California firm
    that helps companies
    discover and act on new
    insights about their
    customers and
    themselves




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Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology…




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Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology…




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Which is
    “not user
    centered”
7
        ?
       Steve Portigal   www.portigal.com
Building what you (and your friends?) want




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Building from within your community




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Implement every feature customers ask for




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Implement a feature that improves your product




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Naïve ignorance of users




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Willful ignorance of users




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Designing to a strong vision




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Young arrogant genius or young arrogant jerk?




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Design to change the world




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Design to change the world




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Design for discomfort




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Design to f*** people up




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Design to really f*** people up




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Design to the test




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Follow the money (“P&L-centered”)




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Design with Intent




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Towards a
      pattern
      library?
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Keeping the user in mind?




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Keeping the user’s interests in mind?




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Thank You!




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