Monday, December 18, 2006

Podcast of Alan Cooper

Alan Cooper is the author of two absolute classic books: "The Inmates Are Running the Asylum" and "About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design".

In this podcast by Gerry Gaffney, Cooper talks about personas, interaction design and other aspects of User Centered Design (UCD).

Interesting quotes include:

"Personas are not something we make, they're something we discover."

Appropriate focus:

"Even though you have a broad constituency of users, you should have a narrow selection of goals. By definition, a product serves a narrow spectrum of goals, even if it serves a broad spectrum of demographic."

Difference between 'marketing segmentation' and interaction design:

What Interaction Design does is, we go directly to that motivation -- not why someone would to buy but why someone would be satisfied using. That's a deeper thing.

Listen to the whole thing here... (h/t infoDesign!)

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