Early prototyping is key to usercentred design, to convey to users an understanding of the system, elicit ideas for discussion and enable users to play a role in the iterative design process 11. Every day, audree lapierre and thousands of other voices read, write, and share important stories on medium. In this report, human factors engineers from space and naval warfare systems center pacific ssc pacific describe the usercentered design ucd engineering process as a method to design, develop. Ucd focuses on consistently understanding the needs, wants and environments of users. User centered design the fable of the user centered designer by david travis. However, looks like an overview and dont get into much details.
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