Recently in my Interactive product design class here at SCAD I engaged with my students in an exercise to deconstruct Jesse James Garrett's "Elements of User Experience" (the diagram, not the book). What was interesting was the formation of a process that had a new beginning that I have not seen previously articulated before.
We called it "potential". it decribes that moment when passive observation against designer/initiator experience comes together to create the decision to begin further investigation. The next steps are a process of evaluation (validating), researching (gaining more experience), and conceiving & envisioning (designing). Further into the conversation students asked then if experience was so important in this process does that mean that age (and being students they were quite upset with the possibility) is a requirement for good design. I think expanded on the reality that it is not generically experience that matters to the designer, but the "right" experience. Not all experience is even good experience, or valuable experience, and not all experience is the right experience for the moment being worked on. This concept seemed to really stick with the class and with the further work of the deconstructions that we are still trying visualize. So to this topic, I think that my point is that the goal of research is to give the designer a collection of experiences. Some of these are about generating empathy, or aptitude around user needs, goals, and motivations, but other experience is about the science of the mind & body and further other experience is about technological capabilities, business rules and histories, etc. etc. -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=37797 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
