userinvolved
Userinvolved is an umbrella term describing practices, processes, or organizations that actively involve users in decision-making, design, development, evaluation, or governance. While not tied to a single standard framework, it is used across fields such as user experience design, product development, research, and public policy to indicate that end-users participate as partners rather than as passive subjects.
In practice, userinvolved approaches include participatory design, co-creation workshops, user interviews, usability testing with participants, living
Benefits include improved relevance and usability, higher adoption rates, earlier risk detection, and enhanced legitimacy of
Examples include software firms engaging beta users in feature development; municipal projects using resident advisory panels
See also: user-centered design, participatory design, co-creation, participatory research, human-centered design.