In 2007, I conducted a User-Centered Design Workshop at the Shad Valley Program hosted at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada (Shad UBC '07), as part of marking my 20th Anniversary (aka Shadversary) since I first attended the program back in 1987 (Shad Manitoba '87).
Shad Valley (www.shad.ca) is an extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, summer program for high potential youth. It brings together the best and the brightest high-school students at one of several host universities across Canada to expose them to cutting-edge concepts and research in science, technology, entrepreneurship and more. The program has played a significant role in nurturing many of Canada and the world's intellectual and entrepreneurial elite, including producing over 17 Rhodes Scholars, and spawning innumerable startups.
This year (2008), I'm heading to the opposite end of the country, to conduct a similar workshop at the Shad program being hosted at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL Canada. And I decided that it would be great to start to capture some of the ideas around user-centered design that come out of the participants of this workshop.
The following blog is meant to serve as a host for every designer's main audience -- their users! I hope this will become a place where every Shad attending this workshop starts to share what they learn about their users -- what makes their users unique, different, and relevant.
Over time, my goal is that this becomes a repository of some great user stories, so that any designer (which is just about anyone, because at some level, we are all "designers" of some form or another in this world) can benefit and learn from the insights users bring to the craft of design.
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