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Towards user design? On the shift from object to user as the subject of design
Johan Redström
This paper talk about how there seems to be a shift in design from designing objects to designing the user experience and the problem that this raises such as knowing who the user actually is. To an extent I agree with the author that trying to govern the way in which a user will experience a design, pigeonholes the user and is trying to predict the unpredictable.
I think that designs can have an intended way for the product to be experienced but that the product it’s self should be strong enough in it’s form and function that the user can experience it in their own chosen manor there for not limiting the user or causing the problems of having to try and predict how the user will respond.