As I wrote earlier, I'm working up a book about experience design -- also called, “designing for experience.” I met with my publisher and it looks like a go. As cases that can be featured in the book, I welcome your suggestions of exemplary experience design, applied to the following:

• Architecture and urban designs (intended to produce identifiable experiential outcomes)
• Cross-media environments (e.g., so-called “real-world games” employing various media )
• Customer experiences (processes as well as physical artifacts)
• Exhibitions, museums, and learning centers
• Experiences for education
• Experiences for entertainment
• Games and simulations (in the “real world,” not just on-screen)
• Haptic environments (acoustic, tactile, scent, motion, etc.)
• Immersive environments (virtual and physical)
• Integrated marketing (synergistic scored experiences)
• Landscape architecture and interpretive environments
• Longiitudinal experiences (single or multiple related experiences that occur over time)
• Themed attractions, theme parks, and themed destinations
• Workplaces and “third places” (places that are social, apart from the workplace and home)

These categories overlap. It doesn't matter at this time precisely into which category a case falls, or whether it's for a client or experimental. Also, if you have an example of experience design that doesn't fit within the categories, send it along anyway. Our field is growing like Topsy: there are always new expressions and formats. Also, I'm interested in instances where research methodologies, like usability and ethnography; and application methodologies, like interaction design, wayfinding, and corporate narrative, have contributed to successful experience designs.

As for the much-debated “user experience,” I'm interested in on-screen presentations and discrete products if they were integral parts of more complex experiences (for example, integrated media campaigns, the interior of a vehicle, or exhibitions).

Please be sure to include with each case suggestion a point of contact (email and phone if you have them). The POC should be an individual associated with the case project, with whom I can arrange the case's submission for review. Send your suggestions to my Gmail address, please. Please include in the Subject Line, “Experience Case:” and the case's working name. I'd appreciate it also if you'd share this invitation with your friends and, if you're a blog author, your readers. Thank you!