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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

Clothes, fabrics, and fashion


It can be argued that clothes are the most complex of all product categories. From personal, to official, to ceremonial uses, clothes are encoded with historical and cultural significance. In the biblical story, the first thing Adam and Eve do after eating from the forbidden tree of knowledge, is covering their nakedness with fig leaves that they sewed together. Adam and Eve can be considered as the first fashion designers, sewing--as the first technique for manufacturing cloths, and fig leaves--as the first materials to fashion clothes from. While the scientific community is still debating when people started wearing clothes, the range is between 50,000 to 540,000 years ago.

The image above illustrates some of the ceremonial uses of uniforms by royalty, clergy, physicians, justices, and soldiers. The use of special fitted garments and uniforms to distinguish the wearer by their special role cuts across all societies and cultures. The saying "You are what you...