History of UX Design Flashcards
Who coined the term “user experience” in the 1990s?
Don Norman
What is the earliest acknowledgment to UX as we know it today?
Feng Shui, 4000 BC
Why is Feng Shui an acknowledgment of UX?
Feng shui is all about arranging your surroundings in the most optimal, harmonious, or user-friendly way.
What was the key step in UX history?
Toyota when they continued on the quest for workplace efficiency. Toyota developed its famous human-centered production system.
Toyota Production System was based upon respect for people, and much attention was paid to creating the optimal working environment.
It really brought attention to the importance of how humans interact with machines.
Who is Henry Dreyfuss and why is he one of the key figure in the history of UX design?
Henry Dreyfuss was an American industrial engineer who was renowned for designing and improving the usability of some of the most iconic consumer products.
Who is Don Norman?
A cognitive scientist, joined the team at Apple in the early 90s as their User Experience Architect- making him the first person to have UX in his job title.
Who were the two people you best exemplified the machine age philosophy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
Frederick Winslow Taylor and Henry Ford
Who is Frederick Winslow Taylor?
Was a mechanical engineer and pioneer of Taylorism - otherwise known as Scientific Management.
On a mission to make human labor more efficient, Taylor conducted extensive research into the interactions between workers and their tools. (Early 1900s)
In 1911, he wrote “The Principles of Scientific Management” in which he asserted that systematic management is the solution to inefficiency. Although Taylorism was widely criticised for the way it reduced people to mere cogs in a machine, Taylor’s focus on optimizing the relationship between humans and their tools is certainly reminiscent of some key UX principles.
