/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Total Experience: the emerging practice of design for experience. en-us bluefire@well.com 2007-10-30T16:00:53-07:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/10/30/im_baaack.php I've been absent from Total Experience for several weeks. Here's why.... Movable Type, Corante.com's server software, was upgraded in September. In the process, it became incompatible with my Ecto for the Mac blog editor. Having worked so long with Ecto,... 72821@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ TE Blog 2007-10-30T16:00:53-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/06/28/back_in_the_saddle_and_ready_to_ride.php The last two weeks have been glad and sad. Glad to be in a new place, see old friends, and be free of the last year's emotional burdens. Sad to have left Santa Monica and my dear friends there,... 72457@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2007-06-28T23:52:05-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/05/28/dont_touch_that_dial_about_experience_is_coming_right_up_this_week.php My weekend plan to describe Experience as that term has been used in different traditions -- spiritual, philosophical, scientific, and so forth -- was set back by a surprise assignment that requires me to temporarily relocate out of state.... 72349@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2007-05-28T13:51:04-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/05/07/away_for_the_week_at_esalen.php I'm away for the week at Esalen, in Big Sur, CA, the birthplace of the "human potential" and "transformation" movements: discovering the potential of the self in preparation to engender positive changes in the world. I'll be writing of my... 72289@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ TE Blog 2007-05-07T18:10:54-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/01/29/a_stroke_of_good_luck.php This is zhuanji, the Chinese word for “a stroke of good luck!" As you may have noticed, I've been absent from this blog for the last week. I'm engaged in probably the most important experience design project of my... 71953@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2007-01-29T14:38:57-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/01/08/why_we_publish_in_spurts.php My colleague Paula and I tend to publish Total Experience in spurts. A week or even two will go by without a blog entry -- and then three, four, or more explode out of our minds and onto the... 71474@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ TE Blog 2007-01-08T18:54:36-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2006/12/29/my_apologies_for_a_slow_week_ahead_a_critical_review_the_state_of_experience_design.php Like many in Southern California, last week I contracted a trilogy of viruses that took me out of action until now. Thanks to TE co-author Paula Thornton for holding down the fort with her provocative postings. For the New Year,... 71161@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ TE Blog 2006-12-29T17:25:18-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2006/10/05/total_experience_is_recruiting_guest_authors.php TOTAL EXPERIENCE! The Total Experience team invites designers from every discipline to become Guest Authors and share in our conversation. Experience design is eclectic. It explores and interacts with the full range of human phenomena. Culture. Technology. Behavior. Experience.... 66808@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ TE Blog 2006-10-05T12:39:03-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2005/09/10/relaunching_total_experience.php View image It’s time to relaunch Total Experience. Summer’s sloth is over, fiscal years are ready to begin, and it’s time to bring in the harvest. Paula’s and my experience leads us to an unavoidable conclusion, one that has yet... 11544@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ TE Blog 2005-09-10T20:05:09-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2004/12/28/a_holiday_slowdown.php Season's greetings to everyone! The TE Team wishes you the very best in 2005. You may have noticed a slowdown in our postings. That's because we're taking a break from the hectic pace of late 2004 which affected each of... 11518@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ TE Blog 2004-12-28T14:46:35-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2004/08/30/new_te_coauthors_coming_online.php Ethnographer Steve Portigal, innovation strategist Tom Mulhern (former principal, Conifer Research), and design theoretician and director Paula Thornton, i knovate will soon be joining me as coauthors of Total Experience. Their participation will add a whole new dimension to... 11478@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ TE Blog 2004-08-30T17:48:20-07:00