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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

Chapter 8. Delight and Engagement

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

This chapter addresses the following questions:

  • What makes an experience with a product successful?
  • What are the characteristics of great experience, and how do these characteristics maximize a product's desirability, engagement, conversion, retention, and reputation?

We will explore several dimensions, including localization, customization, and personalization, of the process that tailors an experience to a single user. We will look at how this outcome is achieved by creating engagement and infusing a sense of joy, marvel, and fun through visual effects, animation, gamification, and data visualization. While new technologies continuously expand the spectrum of possible product experiences, each design discipline has its proven methods for creating compelling engagement experiences, which are often technology agnostic.

This chapter includes an assortment of examples and instances that demonstrate what makes...