/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Total Experience: the emerging practice of design for experience. en-us bluefire@well.com 2007-09-11T17:20:20-07:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 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/2007/08/20/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/2007/06/30/prelude_to_a_discussion_of_spiritual_experience.php I sat down to write about the varieties of spiritual experience, only to be confronted by news of the Glasgow Airport car bombing; and earlier, the discovery in London of two Mercedes filled to the gills with explosives and nails... 72460@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2007-06-30T09:34:33-07:00 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/2007/05/31/spirituality_and_experience_a_prelude.php I began my research on the nature of experience in different traditions with the oldest tradition of all, spirituality. I haven't finished. I discovered a wealth of reflection on the spiritual experience, not only as an accumulation of millennia... 72361@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Theories of Experience 2007-05-31T10:30:02-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/05/24/my_goal_for_the_weekend_describing_experience.php This long Memorial Day weekend, I've set myself the goal of describing Experience. During the last year, searching for a deeper understanding of Experience, I've intensively read, in articles, on blogs, and in exchanges of email, how designers of... 72338@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2007-05-24T00:48:52-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/05/22/what_is_experience_comments_from_the_readers.php In April 2007 I posted five questions about the nature of experience. I asked TE's readers to offer their answers as Comments. The questions were: 1. When does an experience begin and end? 2. What are the dimensions of... 72330@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Theories of Experience 2007-05-22T14:58:09-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/05/20/effective_design_of_experience_requires_the_application_of_constraints.php I was at a street fair today and fairly overwhelmed by the cacophony: so many sights, sounds, and -- yes -- smells! I was immersed in the celebration. But if you asked me to poiint out one or a... 72324@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2007-05-20T21:38:51-07:00 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/2007/04/18/5_can_an_experience_be_shared_if_so_in_what_way_and_among_whom_and_how_many_individuals_is_the_experience_they_share_the_same.php This is the fifth and last of five questions defining the nature of experience that I will now post. I hope that you, the readers of this blog, will help me to answer them and thus, to define experience.... 72233@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Theories of Experience 2007-04-18T23:27:19-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/04/18/4_what_metrics_can_be_devised_and_applied_or_have_been_already_to_take_the_measure_of_an_experience.php This is the fourth of five questions defining the nature of experience that I will now post. I hope that you, the readers of this blog, will help me to answer them and thus, to define experience. I will... 72232@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Theories of Experience 2007-04-18T23:20:00-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/04/18/3_what_role_do_setting_memories_of_prior_experiences_and_the_larger_environment_play_in_creating_the_character_of_an_experience.php This is the third of five questions defining the nature of experience that I will now post. I hope that you, the readers of this blog, will help me to answer them and thus, to define experience. I will... 72230@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Theories of Experience 2007-04-18T22:51:05-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/04/18/2_what_are_the_dimensions_of_an_experience.php This is the second of five questions defining the nature of experience that I will now post. I hope that you, the readers of this blog, will help me to answer them and thus, to define experience. I will... 72229@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Theories of Experience 2007-04-18T22:42:39-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/04/18/1_when_does_an_experience_begin_and_end.php This is the first of five questions defining the nature of experience that I will now post. I hope that you, the readers of this blog, will help me to answer them and thus, to define experience. I will... 72228@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Theories of Experience 2007-04-18T22:38:37-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/04/04/disrobing_the_emperor_the_online_user_experience_isnt_much_of_one.php On the improbably named blog, Asia Carrera Videos (which mysteriously has nothing to do with the adult film star or her videos), digital marketing executive Jeff Bader makes an impassioned appeal about “Designing Websites That Appeal to the Senses.”... 72191@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ 2007-04-04T18:28:21-07:00