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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

2D surfaces and meaning


Delivering experiences in two dimensions is the principal realm of graphic design, typography, and software user interfaces for the web and mobile apps.

The origin of the word "graphic" is from the ancient Greek, "graphe", meaning writing and drawing--two means of communication that are executed on and are experienced via surfaces--may they be pages of a magazine, the screen of a smartphone, or the fabric of a dress. The brain is capable of making sense out of the markings on those surfaces, and a common cultural agreement on the meaning of the various markings, makes it possible to distribute compact messages that can be understood by wide audiences.

Tradition is extremely important to the development of typography and graphic design. Until 200-300 years ago, most people were illiterate. Reading and writing were limited to a relatively few people, mostly men who were members of the upper classes or clergy. And so there has been a gap between written and verbal language...