Coming together: integrating UCD into current Industrial Design and Software Engineering practices

22/05/2008

At U2 - Understanding Users: the First Conference and Intensive Training on User-Centred Design, Namahn members Kristel Van Ael and Joannes Vandermeulen discuss "Coming together: integrating UCD into current Industrial Design and Software Engineering practices".

With the necessity of User-Centred Design now well accepted, the most pressing issue has become one of performance: how must a company practise UCD to the greatest possible effect? The speakers, with strong backgrounds in industrial design and software engineering, will discuss pitfalls and opportunities in having UCD specialists work together with industrial designers and software engineers. The process models of these disciplines are examined and tentatively mapped. A number of cases from the speakers’ own experiences are looked at.

The detailed programme is posted on the ucd.be site.