Designing Experiences Research

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Although the speaker is discussing product design I think when considering the experience a piece of graphic design creates is also an interesting concept. Rather than it being something we consider and feel through the end product it should shape and alter the design process. This is a way of engaging the user in new and innovative ways.
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"Kelley believes you start to think about things completely different when you think your job is to design the experience of using the device as opposed to designing the device itself. Kelley feels that to captivate an audience you need to build a context around the technology you are marketing and take into consideration how outside factors will affect how your product is perceived. He uses methods of transportation as an example."

 

First I need to define the term experience as I may be slightly more discussing the idea of interaction, this is the difference between the two terms... Source [Accessed on 03.03.13]

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Ex · per · ri · en · ce

 

1. A particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.

 

2. The process or fact of personally observing, encountering, or undergoing something: business experience.

 

3. The observing, encountering, or undergoing of things generally as they occur in the course of time: to learn from experience; the range of human experience.

 

4. Knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what one has observed, encountered, or undergone: a man of experience.

 

5. Philosophy . the totality of the cognitions given by perception; all that is perceived, understood, and remembered.

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In · ter · ac · tive

 

1. Acting one upon or with the other.

 

2. Of or pertaining to a two-way system of electronic communications, as by means of television or computer: interactive communications between families using two-way cable television.

 

3. (of a computer program or system) interacting with a human user, often in a conversational way, to obtain data or commands and to give immediate results or updated information: For many years airline reservations have been handled by interactive computer systems.

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This has lead me on to think about the idea of function V Experience...

How can an alternative experience (not a particularly functional one) be utilised to change a users perception of something?