Furthermore, as an HCI designer, you will work on solving problems for your users. In Silicon Valley and on the mouths of those involved in business start-ups is the term Minimum Viable Product, or MVP:
An MVP is the idea that a production team should produce the simplest version of a software product that offers only the highest value to its users in order to be first to market. An MVP focuses on the impact of learning in new product development. If you are not familiar with Eric Ries, he wrote a book called The Lean Startup, which has impacted the way many software companies, entrepreneurs, and start-ups have oriented their software development teams and in turn, developed software solutions. The MVP helps in the validation of ideas upfront and holds that learning comes in the form of whether your customers will actually purchase your product.
As we have been discussing, human-centered software has the ability to address the requirements of an MVP. A key premise behind...