Aligning IS Design with Users' Mind Contents Recommendations from a Psychodynamic Point of View

This paper discusses the possibility of aligning information systems and their users' mind contents and its potential benefits. "Mind contents" here mostly refers to very common and daily habits of users. The study assumes that such habits including their background/unconscious processes and their outward manifestations define people's attitudes and capabilities generally, and specifically towards the system and system's usage. Therefore, initially the properties of those habits from a psychodynamic view are discussed. Thereafter, the possible relationships between those habits and the introduction of a new system and its impacts are suggested. Finally the study strives to propose ways in terms of general considerations and recommendations to design and shape the information systems in compliance with user habits only where the efficiency and performance of the user-system interactions can be improved.