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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


This chapter provided an overview of various user research methodologies, artifacts, and activities that experience designers regularly use in order to figure out the user whom they design for, the contexts the user engages with the product, and some of the experience attributes the product should support in order to make the user feel unique, despite the product being a mass produced.

This chapter along with--Chapter 2, The Experience Design Process - An Overview and Chapter 3, Business and Audience Context, provided a high-level overview of experience design processes, and methods. Design is never detached from the realities of business, yet, at the same time, it energizes and motivates organizations to reinvent themselves and their products. Design is a solution for moving forward that benefits everyone.

At this point, you should have a better understanding of the many considerations that get experience design going, and how the needs of an organization are aligned with those of...