/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Total Experience: the emerging practice of design for experience. en-us iknovate@gmail.com 2008-01-03T15:09:51-07:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2008/01/03/amazon_kindle_a_new_experience_channel.php While the likes of the iPhone expand our access to online, Amazon embraces our changing states of online and offline by synthesizing them in an experience-specific device, the Kindle, for wireless reading. Amazon reinforces the synthesis by using the term... 72984@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Experience Design & Technology 2008-01-03T15:09:51-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/06/28/the_5_ps_of_design_development.php Note: I've redated this to raise it again with new info. Forrester had published an insightful report (July 2006) that spoke to larger considerations for workspace design: Untethering Information Workers: Rethinking Workplace Location and Layout (subscription only access). I was... 72093@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Experience Design & Technology 2007-06-28T10:00:37-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/03/10/forthcoming_the_cellphone_industrys_customerexperience_debacle.php The icky experience of cellular telephone service is about to get ickier. “The Ad-Free Cellphone May Soon Be Extinct,” laments an February 24 article in the New York Times by Eric Sylvers.* The last non-advertising communications medium. An endangered... 72111@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2007-03-10T22:04:55-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/02/28/making_meaning_nathan_shedroff_interviewed_by_steve_portigal_on_core_77.php Nathan Shedroff, a good friend and author of the first (and so far, only) book on holistic experience design -- aptly entitled, Experience Design 1-- is interviewed by Bay Area ethnographer Steve Portigal on the ever informative design portal,... 72084@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2007-02-28T13:57:31-07:00 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/2006/11/30/for_whom_the_bell_tolls_a_timeline_of_timelines_and_clash_of_the_time_lords.php Our experience of time is indivisible from our experience of living. Two recent sources indicate how thoroughly intertwined our notions of time are with our other perceptions, and how therefore they can be intentionally reshaped by others working on... 69898@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2006-11-30T11:19:03-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2006/10/30/digital_hollywood_la_report_complete.php If it's one thing they should tell you when you assume the mantle of a not-for-profit blogger is not to promise anything with a deadline attached. Lots can happen (and did this week) to retard this blog-in-progress. But my... 68304@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2006-10-30T20:46:25-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2006/10/24/digital_hollywood_la_report_no_1_two_internets_coexisting.php Digital Hollywood LA on its Preview Day has already proven a very interesting conference. Beyond it's “Hollywood” theme and flavor -- lots of beautiful, politely aggressive people pushing product -- unique among the Internet conferences, DH features a striking... 67966@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2006-10-24T22:36:41-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2006/10/16/studio_360_scratch_and_sniff_the_mystery_of_smell.php The first 40 minutes of this week's Studio 360, New York Public Radio's always fascinating show about design and experience, is entitled “Scratch and Sniff,”and features four short audio programs (in Real format) about the wonders of smell. “Scratch... 67394@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Integrative + Interdisciplinary Design 2006-10-16T07:23:51-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2006/10/09/advertising_rediscovers_experience_design_more_of_the_same_or_a_sea_change.php As a former advertising creative director (as you may read in my prior entries), I've been giving a lot of thought to the advertising industry, wondering why it hasn't embraced experience design in the same way that the avant-garde... 66998@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2006-10-09T14:17:49-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2006/09/25/marketing_your_design_firm_by_adam_lerner_on_core_77.php Adam Lerner's “Marketing Your Design Firm,” on Core 77, offers a thorough discussion of the why's, wherefore's, and how-to's of marketing and selling design services. It's an insightful piece worth printing out and keeping handy in your ideas notebook.... 66077@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Blink › 2006-09-25T09:43:19-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2006/09/19/video_democracy_online_once_a_reality_soon_a_dream.php Who hasn't heard of YouTube by now? It's a Web-based video scrapbook cum social network that features thousands, perhaps by now millions of videos submitted by professional producers and marketers, aspiring actors and musicians, parents and children, and the... 65785@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2006-09-19T20:55:03-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2006/09/14/experientias_edemocracy_reds_kitchen_cabinet_and_planetizen_bringing_experience_design_to_the_public_sector_and_the_public.php e-democracy is a new blog launched by Experientia, the Torino-based experience-design consultancy co-founded by Mark Vanderbeeken, author of Experientia's well-read other blog, Putting People First. It's a necessary new venture aimed at exploring the interface between more representative forms... 65485@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ ED Projects of Note 2006-09-14T08:47:16-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2006/07/21/brian_algers_blog_edn_experience_designer_network.php While I'm on a roll, having just digested Matt Sinclair's delicious interview with Nokia's Liisa Puolakka (below), permit me to point you to Brian Alger's blog, Experience Designer Network. Alger, author of the well-received, The Experience Designer: Learning, Networks,... 62167@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Blink › 2006-07-21T01:44:45-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2006/07/21/pingmag_new_levels_of_experience_design_an_interview_with_liisa_puolakka_nokias_new_head_of_brand_and_sensorial_experiences.php PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things” features Matt Sinclair's probing inteview of Nokia's new Head of Brand and Sensorial Experiences, Liisa Puolakka. The lengthy interview, interspersed with copious visual examples of how Nokia takes to... 62164@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2006-07-21T00:35:15-07:00