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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

Role of the designer


Are designers just commercializing emerging trends and fashions, or do they set the trends? Do we need so many fonts, shoe styles, smartphone models, and breakfast cereal flavors?

Experience designers have always worked within the constraints and pressures of commercial settings, because their services are tied to the demands of individuals, companies, and organizations who pay for their services. And yet, for centuries, individual designers and design movements set important trends that supported or led to major shifts in industrial, social, and personal attitudes towards aesthetic and functional appreciation of experience.

The twentieth century marked a dramatic change in the role of the designer. It was a part of a shift to the modern--the notion that the world is turning a new page with the power of scientific and industrial breakthroughs. Influential movements in philosophy, art, architecture, and industrial design, brought forward the ideas of "total design".

 

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