/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Total Experience: the emerging practice of design for experience. en-us bluefire@well.com 2007-11-05T16:22:39-07:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 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/innovation_nation_3_the_transformation_gap.php As regular readers will know, for the last two weeks, I've been interviewing technology policymakers, VCs, government investment agencies, incubators, and innovation/concept-design consultancies in Denmark and southern Sweden (Skåne) -- the new, high-tech “Øresund Region” -- to explore how ideas... 72730@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2007-10-02T13:33:02-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/09/22/our_innovation_nation_exploration_ends_my_conclusions_to_follow_when_i_get_home.php My partner Debra and I are nearly at the end of our Øresund Region adventure, meeting and speaking with friends and colleagues in Greater Copenhagen and Malmö, the capital of Skåne, the southernmost region in Sweden. We've had an... 72702@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ 2007-09-22T03:42:14-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/09/11/innovation_nation_the_oresund.php On Monday, I spent 15 hours in the air, the last seven aboard a Boeing 757 “Flying Cattle Car" (perhaps the worst aircraft ever foisted on the traveling public) with a malfunctioning entertainment system. What could compel me to... 72677@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ 2007-09-11T17:20:20-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/09/11/the_best_experiences_arent_designed_theyre_composed.php The most evocative experiences -- those that have lasting power, that alter one's perspectives, apprehension, appreciation, and actions -- aren't designed. They're composed. The distinction isn't subtle. Compositions are easy to identify and remember: everyone can cite his or her... 72673@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ 2007-09-11T06:26:58-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/08/20/spirituality_and_design_part_2.php Preparing to write a book on designing for experience, I decided to explore four ways of understanding experience: as spirituality, philosophically, scientifically, and what we might call “by design.” In an earlier entry, I listed several categories of spiritual... 72612@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Integrative + Interdisciplinary Design 2007-08-20T14:39:43-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/05/28/read_archinect_and_add_it_to_your_rss_feeds.php I can't say enough good things about Archinect, the online magazine of architecture, landscape architecture, and design. Founded and published by Paul Petrunia (in L.A.) and edited by John Jourdan (in Chicago), Archinect has incredible breadth and offers wonderful... 72350@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Integrative + Interdisciplinary Design 2007-05-28T18:27:01-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/04/22/at_one_popular_web_portal_customercentricity_trumps_crm.php An April 20 press release announcing the transformation of former web portal CRMGuru.com to CustomerThink.com is one more signal that customer centricity (i.e., design for experience) is fast becoming the defining factor in state-of-the-art marketing. According to portal founder... 72241@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ ED Projects of Note 2007-04-22T13:28:40-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/04/17/the_emerging_ubiquitous_internet_challenges_experience_designers_to_literally_get_real.php (Sorry about my delay getting back to this blog. My various projects culminated at the same time. I've caught my breath and here goes my first new installment....) About 10 days ago, in my last entry, I noted that... 72220@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2007-04-17T01:15:34-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/01/17/quick_read_this_article_before_its_branded.php While I'm on a rant about marketers -- who are on the verge of replacing politicians as Least-Admired Persons -- permit me to direct you to Louise Story's emperor's-new-clothes article in the New York Times, “Anywhere the Eye Can... 71883@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2007-01-17T18:18:12-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2006/12/08/we_need_theories_of_experience_design.php In few other fields is so much reliance placed on first-hand, insider accounts as a source of knowledge, as in the various fields of experience design. The one exception, historically, has been the built environment, including architecture and landscape... 70291@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2006-12-08T16:25:19-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2006/12/05/information_design_redux.php The importance of information design (ID) as a discipline with much to loan other design disciplines -- especially those that deal with human-human and human-system communication -- was brought home to me by two events. The first event is... 70133@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Events and Happenings 2006-12-05T18:25:34-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2006/12/03/chi_2007_workshop_on_user_centered_design_and_international_development.php Via the Experience Design newsgroup, I received the following invitation to the forthcoming Workshop on User Centered Design and International Development, scheduled to take place during CHI 2007 (the annual conference of the ACM special interest group on Computer-Human... 70045@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Events and Happenings 2006-12-03T21:21:12-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2006/11/05/whats_an_experience_designer_brc_imagination_arts_offers_a_definition.php What's an “experience designer”? This current job posting on Archinect by BRC Imagination Arts, in Burbank, CA, a paragon among experience-design firms, offers a multifaceted description of one type of experience designer. Experience designers come in all disciplines and... 68600@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Integrative + Interdisciplinary Design 2006-11-05T19:11:27-07:00