/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Total Experience: the emerging practice of design for experience. en-us bluefire@well.com 2007-11-08T16:00:32-07:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/11/08/the_ever_more_painful_dow_of_experience_redux.php A little over a year ago, I published an entry here, “The (ever more painful) Dow of Experience.” I was critical of the frequently recurring, almost unavoidable repetition of a rising Dow Jones index as a feel-good economic mantra.... 72849@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2007-11-08T16:00:32-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/11/05/dux_2007_a_great_conference_but_fundamentally_off_the_mark.php The DUX 2007 conference begins today in Chicago. Thematically, content-wise, and in terms of approach, this is the consummate conference on cutting-edge design. The speakers are top-notch, too. If I could, I'd be there. But ideologically, DUX is discomforting.... 72840@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2007-11-05T16:22:39-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/11/05/from_information_design_to_designing_for_experience_keynote_at_3rd_international_conference_on_information_design_icid_curitiba_brazil_october_810_2007.php I gave this presentation on October 8th by Skype, speaking before the 3rd International Conference on Information Design (ICID) that took place in Curitiba, Brazil, 8-10 October 2007. It sums up well my current thinking about information design, user... 72837@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2007-11-05T01:26:35-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/10/02/sri_discipline_of_innovation_express_workshop_st_petersberg_fl_oct_10.php SRI International, for whom I worked as a futurist and commercialization expert in the late 1990s and 2000s, is presenting a "Discipline of Innovation" Express Workshop for the Tampa Bay (FL) Technology Forum in St. Petersberg on October 10, 2007,... 72731@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Innovation & Concept Design 2007-10-02T15:19:04-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/09/26/design_thinking_2007_dallas.php As we try to catch Bob up with conversations already going on in the industry, let me illustrate the significance of having Design Thinking conversations by offering notice of an event planned for the DFW area. For those of... 72718@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Events and Happenings 2007-09-26T16:46:28-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/06/28/new_courses_available.php While we typically wouldn't blanket copy an email announcement here, I think this one is significant in what it means as to 1) the potential to grow the discipline and 2) that someone can justify offering such courses (e.g. there's... 72355@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Events and Happenings 2007-06-28T21:44:58-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/06/11/spirituality_and_experience_the_universe_intervenes.php For those anxiously awaiting my scribblings on spirituality and experience, and for those who wrote so many outstanding Comments regarding past entries (all published this evening), thank you for your patience. No, I did not have a desert epiphany and... 72385@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Theories of Experience 2007-06-11T22:51:24-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/05/15/ive_returned_from_esalen.php My time at Esalen was richly spent, with new and inspiring experiences. One was life-changing. (It's difficult to imagine how a “user experience” expert could have improved upon them.) I'll report in full next week....... 72308@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Events and Happenings 2007-05-15T21:35:03-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/05/04/urgent_oil_crisis_world_without_oil_alternate_intheworld_reality_game_launches.php I received the following email today from Jane McGonigal, the reigning Queen of In-the-World Game-Based Experiences, now Game Designer at the Institute for the Future. It describes “World Without Oil,” a new alternative-reality game that responds to a very... 72283@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ ED Education 2007-05-04T14:02:17-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/05/02/3rd_information_design_intl_conference_39th_intl_visual_literacy_annual_conference_curitiba_brazil_oct_813_2007.php The Third Information Design International Conference -- also known as the 2nd infoDesign Brasil conference -- will take place in Curitiba, Brazil, near Rio, October 8-10, 2007. It's followed immediately by ivla 2007, the 39th International Visual Literacy Annual... 72273@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ ED Education 2007-05-02T12:41:51-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/04/23/edward_castronova_announces_ludium_ii_a_conferencegame_on_virtual_worlds_and_policy.php Professor Edward Castronova has announced Ludium II, a conference built around a game that will examine virtual worlds and possible policy responses. It's part of his continuing groundbreaking work at Indiana University's Synthetic Worlds Initiative. According to Ed, the... 72246@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Events and Happenings 2007-04-23T12:59:17-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/03/15/next_week_mobile_nation_conference_explores_mobile_experience_design_toronto_march_2225.php Despite the cellular industry's uninspiring (in fact, sickening) plan to saturate the mobile environment with advertising, hope lives eternal in the hearts of mobile experience designers that there is another way -- in fact, many other ways -- for... 72127@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Events and Happenings 2007-03-15T09:15:20-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/03/08/chi_2007_san_jose_university_april_28may_3.php Lest anyone's missed the news, CHI 2007 -- the annual conference of the ACM's Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group, SIGCHI for short -- will take place next month at San Jose University (California). It's a worthwhile event for those... 72106@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Events and Happenings 2007-03-08T07:00:56-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/02/19/wikinomics.php Leveraging the common model to combine a book with a discussion, Wikinomics claims to focus on how mass collaboration changes everything. The thoughts framed by this concept were central to the discussions that went on at the recent FASTforward 07... 72025@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Websites, Blogs, and Podcasts 2007-02-19T11:17:20-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2006/12/13/time_warner_communications_gets_customer_experience_right.php Too few companies get customer experience right. “Customer experience” is a hidden component of experience design, how an organization -- governmental, commercial, or membership -- employs social processes, standards for employee interactions with customers and the like, to enhance... 70519@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2006-12-13T15:29:19-07:00