holistic design

Social setting is not static. Settings are changing, and people are learning and developing. The old way to do design that we go to the setting, study the practices and code those practices into systems doesn't work, because the introduction of the technology is going to change the practices themselves, and trigue new issues and ideas. We should do holistic design instead, which means design involving both technology and social setting, technology is only taken as a component of the holistic design. The design should include both design of social setting and design of technology to have it meet our needs. When we consider context, it should be considered as another element of the whole system, instead of being taken as some static thing and to make our system automatically detect and adpat to that. For experience design, since there is no preset requirements, it is particular important to do holistic design and we should know where it is best for computers to fit in, where it is better to change people.