/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Total Experience: the emerging practice of design for experience. en-us bluefire@well.com 2008-01-06T22:28:20-07:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2008/01/06/designing_today_for_a_very_different_tomorrow_suggestions_for_the_coming_age_of_austerity.php Yesterday I wrote despairing that most designers are busy designing products intended to promote consumption and that end up as waste, while all objective indicators signal the need to start designing for a very different future of limits, constraints,... 72995@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2008-01-06T22:28:20-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2008/01/05/designing_today_for_a_very_different_tomorrow_the_coming_age_of_austeriy.php It's another New Year. According to the Chinese calendar, which begins anew on the 7th of February, 2008 is a Year of the Rat. Rat years are fertile for new beginnings: A Rat Year is a time of hard... 72993@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2008-01-05T21:32:13-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/12/17/prisoners_in_the_digital_panopticon_the_experience_of_constant_surveillance_or_when_bad_things_beckon_to_good_designers.php The Panopticon was 18th-Century English philosopher Jeremy Bentham's concept of the ideal prison. It consists of two components: a central tower in which the jailers reside, invisible to the prisoners; and a ring of cells around the central tower... 72953@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2007-12-17T16:56:00-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/11/19/confronting_the_authenticity_conundrum_a_review_of_authenticity_by_gilmore_and_pine.php Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want, by James Gilmore and Joseph Pine II, Harvard Business School Press, 2007 Authenticity is an ambitious volume by Jim Gilmore and Joe Pine, authors of the 1999 marketing classic, The Experience Economy: Work is... 72877@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2007-11-19T00:56:59-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/11/15/fill_er_up_as_a_customer_experience_or_how_i_learned_to_stop_worrying_and_love_big_oil.php The price of sweet crude oil futures is nearing a $100 high-water mark that will inevitably result in social sticker shock, followed by resentment everywhere except among the OPEC nations. Marketers and brand managers of gasoline and other consumer... 72870@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2007-11-15T12:10:10-07:00 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/2007/09/04/an_odd_little_book_everyday_engineering_what_engineers_see_by_andrew_burroughs.php Everyday Engineering: What Engineers See, by IDEO engineer Andrew Burroughs (Chronicle Books 2007), is an odd little book -- and I do mean odd, it's almost completely pictorial; and little, about 4“ x 6”. It's now part of my... 72663@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2007-09-04T12:49:56-07:00 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/2007/04/17/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/2007/04/02/the_experience_is_the_product.php When you can't seem to find the right words to explain what experience design is all about and how it fits into business, point your conversation partner to this fast-paced 4 minute video of Peter Merholz describing the what's important... 72183@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ The Practice of Experience Design 2007-04-02T16:20:16-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/03/16/more_on_my_search_for_cases_of_exemplary_experience_designs.php Earlier, I posted an invitation to readers, to make me aware of exemplary experience design projects for possible inclusion in my book-in-progress. I forgot to add an important category: • Pageants, Festivals, Rituals, and Spiritual Places and Experiences Please... 72132@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ ED Projects of Note 2007-03-16T13:33:26-07:00