Use-centered design is a design philosophy in which the focus is on the goals and tasks associated with skill performance in specific work or problem domains, in contrast to " user-centered design " approach, where the focus is on the needs, wants, and limitations of the end user of the designed artifact.

Use-centered design was first coined by John Flach and Cynthia Dominguez ( Flach, J. M. & Dominguez, C. O.

Use-centered design: Integrating the user, instrument, and goal.

On her bureau lay a small, brass ornament of simple design and faded engraving -- an object which, Pamela believed now, had been the property of her great-grandfather, Major Hiram Munroe Culver.

Rather than putting their trust in ephemeral sensations they seek form in the stable relationships of pure design, which symbolize an order more real than the disorder of the perceptual world.

The design is determined emotionally: `` I must reach into myself for the spring that will send me catapulting recklessly into the chaos of event with which the dance confronts me ''.

For a particularly fabulous room which houses a collection of fine English Chippendale furniture, fabric wall panels were embroidered with a typically Chinese-inspired design of this revered Eighteenth Century period.

There was only one way to accomplish this: by design, by drawing diagrams and sketches in which he probed the remotest corner of his mind for creative ideas to carry his concept.

Michelangelo hurried to Sangallo's solitary bachelor room with his sketches, asked the architect to design a stand which would simulate the seated Madonna.

Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.

The latest versions of the famous Savage Model 99 are the 99 Featherweight ( about $125 ) and the 99 Deluxe ( under $135 ), which have a top-tang safety and improved trigger design.

And like this English master, Mason realizes his subjects in large, simplified masses which, though they seem effortless, are in reality the result of skilled design born of hard work and a thorough distillation of the natural form that inspired them.

Like many others, he had to work hard, long hours in a struggling family business which, though it was allied to art of a kind -- the design and production of engraved seals -- bore no relation to the painting of pictures.

First I make preliminary watercolor sketches in quarter scale ( approximately Af inches ) in which I pay particular attention to the design principles of three simple values -- the lightest light, the middle tone, and the darkest dark -- by reducing the forms of my subject to these large patterns.

They offer exceptional design freedom, making it possible to incorporate contours and details which give free range to the talents of the designer.

They also give information which will aid in the design of a more satisfactory instrument for the measurement of the normal pressures.

As a result, many people have been confirmed in their conviction that orthography design is not an activity to which experts can contribute anything but confusion.

The tube design which forms the basis of the theoretical discussion shall be described now.

The process in which the outcome of any one stage is known only statistically is also of interest, although for chemical reactor design it is not as important as the deterministic process.

These two, Heritage and Drexel, chose too not to produce the exactly matching design for every piece, but a collection of correlated designs, each of which could stand alone.

They were works of devotional contemplation in which the musical design corresponded to literary ideas, conceived visually.

A key problem in the design of good algorithms for this problem is that formulas for the variance may involve sums of squares, which can lead to numerical instability as well as to arithmetic overflow when dealing with large values.

Architecture is a profession in which technical knowledge, management, and an understanding of business are as important as design.

In October 2010, John Graham-Cumming started a campaign to raise funds by " public subscription " to enable serious historical and academic study of Babbage's plans, with a view to then build and test a fully working virtual design which will then in turn enable construction of the physical Analytical Engine.

Free exhibitions often are held on the first floor, which also provides some opportunity to see the interior design.

The novelty of the design lay in the means by which it could be broken down into three pieces for stowage.

* The Spade is a French design which has proved successful since 1996.

It is noteworthy that Socrates ( Plato, Phaedo, 98 B ) accuses Anaxagoras of failing to differentiate between nous and psyche, while Aristotle ( Metaphysics, Book I ) objects that his nous is merely a deus ex machina to which he refuses to attribute design and knowledge.

In adhesively bonded structures, the global geometry and loads are fixed by structural considerations and the design procedure focuses on the material properties of the adhesive and on local changes on the geometry.

General limitations about the structure and philosophy of CITES include: by design and intent it focuses on trade at the species level and does not address habitat loss, ecosystem approaches to conservation, or poverty ; it seeks to prevent unsustainable use rather than promote sustainable use ( which generally conflicts with the Convention on Biological Diversity ), although this has been changing ( see Nile Crocodile, African elephant, South African white rhino case studies in Hutton and Dickinson 2000 ).

Control engineering is the engineering discipline that focuses on the modeling of a diverse range of dynamic systems ( e. g. mechanical systems ) and the design of controllers that will cause these systems to behave in the desired manner.

In 1989, Autodesk, an American multinational corporation that focuses on 2D and 3D design software, developed a virtual design system called Cyberspace.

CPU design focuses on these areas:

* User-centered design, which focuses on the needs, wants, and limitations of the end user of the designed artifact.

Control engineering focuses on the modeling of a diverse range of dynamic systems and the design of controllers that will cause these systems to behave in the desired manner.

Her work focuses on beauty and design aspects of graffiti as opposed to Banksy's anti-government shock value.

General lexicography focuses on the design, compilation, use and evaluation of general dictionaries, i. e. dictionaries that provide a description of the language in general use.

Specialized lexicography focuses on the design, compilation, use and evaluation of specialized dictionaries, i. e. dictionaries that are devoted to a ( relatively restricted ) set of linguistic and factual elements of one or more specialist subject fields, e. g. legal lexicography.

Though the SVG Specification primarily focuses on vector graphics markup language, its design includes the basic capabilities of a page description language ( PDL ), like Adobe's PDF.

Security engineering is a specialized field of engineering that focuses on the security aspects in the design of systems that need to be able to deal robustly with possible sources of disruption, ranging from natural disasters to malicious acts.

*** Meccanico which focuses on the processes of design and production of machinery and vehicles

Whereas architecture focuses on individual buildings, urban design address the larger scale of groups of buildings, of streets and public spaces, whole neighborhoods and districts, and entire cities, to make urban areas functional, attractive, and sustainable.

This specialty focuses on compilers and operating systems design and development.

* Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory – focuses on the design and development of nuclear power for the U. S. Navy.

Environmental engineering focuses on design and technology for improving environmental quality.

ApplicationMaster is unusual in its approach to application design in that it focuses on the user session as if it were running in a single conversational process, completely hiding the complexity of maintaining state across user interactions.

Permaculture design focuses heavily upon natural patterns.

At the technical end the college focuses on the art and design that go into digital media, entertainment art, and communication art.

Information design focuses on the effective communication of information, especially in industrial documents and public signs.

Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational corporation that focuses on 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media and entertainment industries.

The High Technology Center is located in the Campania region of Italy, near Naples, focuses on aero structure design and innovative systems research.