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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

Gestures


Next to the smiley face icon, the visual representation of the thumbs up gesture may be the most widely used visual symbol, thanks to Facebook's like function. This non-verbal universal gesture is used as a status indicator that expresses one's positive or negative emotional response to something. The human ability to encode such social connotation in a physical gesture, and then abstract it in a graphic symbol, makes possible their use as icons in user interfaces.

From seeing to making meaning

What complicates the design of visual information is that responses to visual cues, while built into the visual-processing function of our brain, do not always produce the same reaction in all viewers.

The image of a white dove on a balcony banister, is an image with sufficient cultural content to elicit some anticipated responses related to a sense of beauty, nature, peace, freedom, and the like. Yet in addition to such generalized responses, the viewer's individual context can trigger completely...