Community Centered Design

Focusing on the mid-20th century, this paper explores the relationship between design and economics. Then, through the postwar emergence of user-centered design, it explores the positive and negative outcomes that this dominant approach has had on larger social relations, specifically asking: How are the motivations influencing user-centered design processes inherited by its products and their users? Using case studies and insights from design theorists, historians and practitioners, the paper calls for a new approach to industry lead design research and practices that evolves the question "how does this work for me?" to include "how does this work for us

Engineering ethics · Human–computer interaction · Knowledge management · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Social worlds · Sociology · User-Centered Design · Work (physics · Bioethics and Human Rights Issues · Computer Science · Design Education and Practice · Engineering · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction