 | 'Focus less on user-centred, and more on design,' said Donna Maurer, in combative mood, as she addressed the OzCHI 2006 conference in Sydney last month. 'There is no correlation between having a UCD team and producing good stuff. Some UCD teams produce garbage; some companies manage very well without.'
Viewing her keynote's theme of "User-centred design in Practice – is it working?" from a practitioner perspective, the independent interaction designer and information architect pulled apart various Gods of usability: 'Jakob Nielsen should be removed from the galaxy – teach principles, not rules,' she insisted.
Nielsen peddles the idea that developers are stupid and our community treats them like they are dumb, she went on. But many usability practitioners are in over their heads, she suggested, making design recommendations without any design training and not staying with what they know best.
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