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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

Design continuity


Most traditional design domains emerged as masterful hand-crafting of a singular product experience for one patron. They transitioned to pattern-based mass production during the industrial age. Today we are witnessing a return to singularly produced fully customizable experiences. However, these are not hand-made, but rather driven by manufacturing technologies, such as 3D printing, which make it possible to design, produce, and deliver an experience-of-one to millions of people.

Experience design is rooted deeply in personal biases and social norms. In some cultures, tradition and uniformity are valued, and in others, individualism and change are valued. In all cultures, design is influenced by cross-cultural pollination. The influences may spread quickly or take effect slowly, yin any case, it is safe to say that new design ideas do not eliminate traditional design. Instead, designers fold the new into the wider vocabulary of patterns and techniques from which they draw...