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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

Defining the product - audience context


A number of models attempt to map out the relationship among companies, their products, and their target audience. In 1991, Geoffrey Moore suggested one influential model in his book, Crossing the Chasm.

This model helps company and product leadership think about the target audience for their upcoming product by segmenting people according to their attitudes toward a new technology - an important consideration, since technology plays a major role in many products.

The preceding bell-curve diagram depicts the technology-adoption life cycle of a product. The center portion of the curve represents the largest number of potential customers, and their numbers decrease as the curve slopes down left and right. The curve is divided into five portions, each representing one of the following clusters of people:

  • Innovators: On the far left of the curve are people who are not afraid of taking risks with products that at the 'bleeding edge', featuring new and sometimes...