http://courses.johnmjones.org/ENGL605/2012/10/08/understanding-the-other/ ENGL 605, WVU, Fall 2012 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 02:44:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://courses.johnmjones.org/ENGL605/2012/10/08/understanding-the-other/#comment-1085 Rachel Henderson Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:38:33 +0000 http://courses.johnmjones.org/ENGL605/?p=662#comment-1085 Christine, I thought this quote you pulled out was interesting: "his framework also pushes user-centered design theorists and practitioners to interrogate the extent to which all designers imagine users that mirror themselves—and calls into question the extent to which designers are capable of imagining users different from themselves." It made me think of when I was working on my honors project in undergrad. I was writing a collection of short fiction stories and my advisor kept pushing me and challenging me to write from perspectives other than my own white, middle class, female perspective. It was challenging, but it was certainly not impossible. In fact, writing from the perspective of a young, lower class, white boy or and old man—those stories actually turned out to be some of my best. I'm not sure there is a parallel that can be drawn here between my fiction writing experiences from other perspectives and Haas' call for technology developers and users to think from the perspective of the "other." But that's what your conversation brought to mind for me. Christine, I thought this quote you pulled out was interesting: “his framework also pushes user-centered design theorists and practitioners to interrogate the extent to which all designers imagine users that mirror themselves—and calls into question the extent to which designers are capable of imagining users different from themselves.” It made me think of when I was working on my honors project in undergrad. I was writing a collection of short fiction stories and my advisor kept pushing me and challenging me to write from perspectives other than my own white, middle class, female perspective. It was challenging, but it was certainly not impossible. In fact, writing from the perspective of a young, lower class, white boy or and old man—those stories actually turned out to be some of my best. I’m not sure there is a parallel that can be drawn here between my fiction writing experiences from other perspectives and Haas’ call for technology developers and users to think from the perspective of the “other.” But that’s what your conversation brought to mind for me.

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