what happens when the device that records your medical status is also the device you use to update your social connections? Human Centered Design is a design philosophy and a process in which the needs, desires, dreams and mental models of the enduser of a productservice domain are given extensive attention at each stage of the design process. Human Centered Design tries to structure the functioning of a service around how people can, want or need to interact with it, rather than the opposite way around. In a Human Centered Design process endusers are involved throughout the product development lifecycle, often in a very active role (Cooperative Participatory Design).
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