Expereince life
I've been thinking about experience design more deeply, experience design turned out to be more than just web experience and also more than just visual experience, look, sound, touch, smell & taste, are all senses that forms a feeling like comfort, amusement, sporty, sexy, horror, excitement or a mix between them.
These are some of millions of feelings you feel by driving a car, watching a movie, using a device or using a web interface. a button in a car for example let's say the start/stop button, it's size, material touch, pressing strength & sound, weather it stays pressed or not and much more aspects creates the feeling or experience, this is just a button press. handling, door weight and the sound when you close it, dashboard materials look and feel all these and much more gathers up to create the experience / feel.
That's why some people I'm one of them, prefer to buy VW Golf over a Toyota Camry, while the golf is smaller but it feels much better, I wonder how a Mini Coopers or Audi R8 feels, surely totally different feelings but I'm sure both are perfect, just the exterior let you get a part of the experience.
Turned out that experience designers are not just web experience designers like me, industrial designers, movies directors, music composers, perfumes makers, interior designers, events designers, chefs, maybe it concerns every designer of any type.
Not to ignore the functional aspect too, experience is nice but if the button in the car that I mentioned for example is not working, you will feel deceived by the feeling delivered, unless this feeling is awfully bad, not working will match it :)
Nature is the best experience of them all, do you feel it, this is what god created in earth, what then will our god design for heaven, I assure you it will be much more than earth, make sure to be there after your life. Some time beauty is mind boggling, it could take your mind away.
June 22, 2010, 11:14 AM | Design , User experience