As I said previously, Interaction Design master in K3 is based on projects, so most of the time we are on the studio working together to accomplish the design goals. During the first project, around twice a week we had workshops about a specific topic. The theme for the first project was “mobile computing”  but the learning goal wasn’t only  Mobile computing interaction but also, and mainly, user centred design.

To be user-centred during the design process, is not enough thinking about “What the user wants?” if you really don’t know who the user is or if you just think about the user as a stereotype. Actually most of the people involved in a product development tend to think that the user is just someone like themselves. To fight against this trend there are several of procedures that a designer can use. One of the most famous is “Personas & Scenarios” and we had a related workshop during the first days.

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