How cool….
I wanna go! Saw this on Adaptive Path’s blog: http://www.dmi.org/dmi/html/education/seminars/sd.htm.
[techtags: USER EXPERIENCE, EXPERIENCE DESIGN, SUSTAINABILITY]
I wanna go! Saw this on Adaptive Path’s blog: http://www.dmi.org/dmi/html/education/seminars/sd.htm.
[techtags: USER EXPERIENCE, EXPERIENCE DESIGN, SUSTAINABILITY]
It has been a great week for me because I’ve actually gotten time to read through all of my favorite blog posts. Today I was reading over this post by Alexa from Adaptive Path. It’s a very interesting article that talks about creating sustainable experiences that encourage users to do the right things, even though their tendency may be to do otherwise. I must admit that parts of me were torn. In some instances I totally agree with this like with her example of taking public transportation vs always driving. However, there is a part of me that thought, shouldn’t I create an experience based user requirements, wants, needs etc. For example let’s say I design cars, sure I think that people should help save on energy, but I want them to use my car as well AND I want to make sure that the car exceeds their expectations.
The next article I read was this one from Inkblurt. This talks about how Facebook encourages the negative experience that one can face. And I thought well, maybe I should look into Alexa’s point a little more. In a social networking space like Facebook, an experience designer could hone in and really think about how they wanted people to use facebook however instead people throw apps together and put them out there, which ends up turning negative. By being more conscientious we can influence those around us to take the right path and do better things. I’m totally buying into now and realizing the types of outcomes that I can have an influence in. Go me!
[techtags: USER EXPERIENCE, EXPERIENCE DESIGN, SUSTAINABILITY]
There are times when I know I’m an idealist. Well actually almost everyday in project meetings and planning sessions I know I’m an idealist. I get frustrated with the “process”. I get frustrated with doing things the same day in and day out and development teams wanting to go faster. Constantly I think about the saying that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. How does no one else see this?!
Doesn’t anyone else out there care about the quality of the user experience? I know to some who read this I may sound silly, but doesn’t anyone else take pride in whether or not people enjoy and can use the by-product of their hardwork??? On days like these I know that I was meant to be in this industry. I’ll admit that as a developer I didn’t always think through the interface, but now that I’ve been exposed to that line of thinking I’m never going back. They can’t make me!
[techtags: USER EXPERIENCE, EXPERIENCE DESIGN]