The first decade of the World Wide Web predominantly enforced a clear separation between
designers and consumers. New technological developments, such as the participatory Web …

In a world that is not predictable, improvisation, evolution, and innovation are more than a
luxury: they are a necessity. The challenge of design is not a matter of getting rid of the …

Behind the steady stream of new products, technologies, systems and services in our
modern societies there is prolonged and complicated battle around the role of users. How …

One fundamental challenge for the design of the interactive systems of the future is to invent
and design environments and cultures in which humans can express themselves and …

We think that over the next few years, the goal of interactive systems and services will evolve
from just making systems easy to use (even though that goal has not yet been completely …

In our Age of exponential technological advance, recent developments are determining an
evolution of end users from passive information consumers into information producers …

In the Information Society, end-users keep increasing very fast in number, as well as in their
demand with respect to the activities they would like to perform with computer environments …

Meta-design characterizes objectives, techniques, and processes for creating new media
and environments that allow the owners of problems to act as designers. A fundamental …

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the motivations behind end user development,
discuss its basic concepts and roots, and review the current state of art. Various approaches …

Whether you're designing consumer electronics, medical devices, enterprise Web apps, or
new ways to check out at the supermarket, today's digitally-enabled products and services …