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Exploring Experience Design

By : Ezra Schwartz
Book Image

Exploring Experience Design

By: Ezra Schwartz

Overview of this book

We live in an experience economy in which interaction with products is valued more than owning them. Products are expected to engage and delight in order to form the emotional bonds that forge long-term customer loyalty: Products need to anticipate our needs and perform tasks for us: refrigerators order food, homes monitor energy, and cars drive autonomously; they track our vitals, sleep, location, finances, interactions, and content use; recognize our biometric signatures, chat with us, understand and motivate us. Beautiful and easy to use, products have to be fully customizable to match our personal preferences. Accomplishing these feats is easier said than done, but a solution has emerged in the form of Experience design (XD), the unifying approach to fusing business, technology and design around a user-centered philosophy. This book explores key dimensions of XD: Close collaboration among interdisciplinary teams, rapid iteration and ongoing user validation. We cover the processes, methodologies, tools, techniques and best-practices practitioners use throughout the entire product development life-cycle, as ideas are transformed to into positive experiences which lead to perpetual customer engagement and brand loyalty.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Summary


New scientific knowledge leads to new technologies, commercial opportunities, and eventually to social changes and individual adaptation. Changes in the role of design were presented in this broad context. This chapter followed the trends that lifted design from a supporting role in a fragmented product development process to that of an equal partner in a process that is unified by design.

The trend toward multi-disciplinary design teams that collaborate throughout the entire product lifecycle, allows teams to partner around a unified process that is infused with multiple forms of feedback from users. However, the most radical change that occurred in this context, was the evolution of experience design processes, methodologies, and tools, which helped create a new emotional framework for the relationships between people and the smart products that know something about them. 

Increasingly, experience design helps transform products from being mere artifacts to becoming extensions of...