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User-centered design is everywhere in the IT world. Just as it was once fashionable to tout "user friendly" interfaces, these days nearly everyone has jumped on the usercentered bandwagon-or is running to catch up. The bandwagon is a roomy one, and user-centered design can be almost anything in practice so long as it adheres to the core philosophy of keeping users at the center of the software development process (Constantine, 2003).

This focus on users as the central subject certainly seems to be a step forward from the technology-centered focus of bygone days, when users were all too often regarded as an annoyance to be ignored as much as possible. However, the frustrations of everyday experience with even the best of modern software products and Web sites tells us that something is still badly wrong with the picture. You need only reflect on how many times a day you click on the wrong object or miss a step in a sequence or forget where a function is buried or curse the way some feature works to recognize how much modern user interfaces fall short of their potential.

We discuss about the wipe and load migration in which, administrator migrates from the computer which is made as the source computer to the intermediate store. When there is the installation of the operating system then, administrator migrate user state back to the source computer.

Here we can consider the study in which, a company has got the funds to update the computers by installing Windows Vista. Employees are bound to keep the same computers, but it is recommended that, Windows Vista will be installed on each computer.

In the first step, administrator will run the command “Scan State” on each existed computer. Scan State command will save the existence of each user to the server. In second step, administrator will install the standard operating environment accord to company's standard which includes Windows Vista at the top priority, MS Office, and many other company applications. Administrator will also run the command “Load State” on each available computer. This command will restore users' state back to the source computer (Windl, 2002).

Scenario one

Among usability professionals, user-centered design is so established that even to hint at problems in its premises or practices is regarded as sacrilege. There is a company which gets 49 new laptops for their top management, and there is a need to replace the old laptops and, ...