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Four Approaches to Design

 User-Centered Design: Focuses on facilitating users' goals. Participation is sought from users at every stage of the design process. Products are designed to fit people; ergonomics.

Activity-Centered Design: Focuses on behavior surrounding particular tasks & activities (a cluster of actions & decisions that are done for a purpose). It is well suited for complicated actions or for products with varied & large amounts of users. The activity, not necessarily the people doing the activity, guide the design.

Systems Design: A very analytical way of approaching design problems, using an established arrangement of components to create design solutions. A system is at the center of the design process (a set of entities that act upon each other). The greatest strength of systems design is in seeing the big picture - the holistic view of a project. It takes a rigorous look at the broad context in which a product or service will be used. (Can consist of people, devices, machines, objects, a whole government or a computer.) It is most appropriate for projects involving large systems or systems of systems.

Genius Design: This approach relies almost solely on the wisdom & experience of the designer to make design decisions, using their best judgement on what users want & basing designs on those judgements. The success of the product rests heavily on the skill of the designer.