Authors:
Dustin Beltram
As usability practitioners, we have embraced the philosophy of user-centered design and strive to devise systems that adapt to the user's needs rather than forcing users to accommodate the system. Enterprise software designers are no different; most of us profess to follow a methodology grounded in the principles of UCD. But the reality is that enterprise software designers must often conceive systems that deliberately make the primary user's life more difficult. Consciously or unconsciously, we do this because sometimes it's more important to support a business process than a user's task. Every interaction designer's life is fraught with compromise.…
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