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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

Expressions


According to the Harvey Ball World Smile Organization:

The Smiley Face was created in America and has been part of American culture since its inception. Americans can be proud of the fact that the Smiley Face has since become the international symbol of good will and good cheer.

It is odd that a basic form of human expression can be subject to a claim of ownership, made into a product, and appropriated for commercial purposes.

Representations of the smile can be found all over the world and throughout history, connecting Greek sculpture from the 4th century BCE to the emoticons we use for communication on social networks.

A smiling face is a universal bi-directional, social-communication device. Language independent, it is a compact, non-verbal, lightning-fast message that evokes feelings of friendliness, trust, and confirmation--even if the smiling face is a visual depiction, and not a live person--which explains why it is used so broadly in product advertising, design, and user...