/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Total Experience: the emerging practice of design for experience. en-us bluefire@well.com 2007-05-28T18:27:01-07:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 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/2007/05/23/design_news_goes_gaga_over_boeings_new_787_but_whats_left_to_fill_er_up.php If you can't get enough juice about jet planes, then Design News special edition on Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner is right for you! Its a masterful collection of articles, interviews, photo albums, and videos -- enough to keep even... 72337@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2007-05-23T18:13:51-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2007/05/04/urgent_oil_crisis_world_without_oil_alternate_intheworld_reality_game_launches.php I received the following email today from Jane McGonigal, the reigning Queen of In-the-World Game-Based Experiences, now Game Designer at the Institute for the Future. It describes “World Without Oil,” a new alternative-reality game that responds to a very... 72283@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ ED Education 2007-05-04T14:02:17-07:00 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/2007/02/28/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/2006/11/08/planetizen_smart_city_radio_broadcasts_on_public_radio_and_podcasts.php Planetizen (plan-NET'-a-zen) is the leading online, public-interest portal and information exchange for the urban planning, design, and development community. It's a one-stop source for urban-planning news, commentary, announcements, book reviews, jobs, events, and more. Community operated, Planetizen was created... 68848@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ ED Projects of Note 2006-11-08T10:33:40-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2006/11/01/idea_2006_presentations_now_available_on_idea_conference_blog.php Proceedings and presentations from IDEA 2006, recently concluded in Seattle, are available for streaming and download on the IDEA conference blog. Featuring a stellar cast of speakers in an appropriately open setting (the Seattle Public Library), the conference proceedings... 68410@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ 2006-11-01T13:45:42-07:00 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/2006/10/09/advertising_spending_moves_back_to_the_real_world.php Erik Sass, in Online Media Post, summarizes a new Blackfriars report that claims companies are “slashing” their Web marketing budgets by a third this year. In the same article, it's revealed that offline marketing budgets have increased by more... 66996@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2006-10-09T13:49:15-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2006/10/06/the_graying_of_myspace_time_for_adult_supervision.php In The Graying Of MySpace, Online Media Daily today reports that more than half of MySpace'smembership is now over 35, up 40 percent from last year, while 18-24 year-old membership has declined 50 percent, from 44 to 30 percent.... 66871@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2006-10-06T07:28:08-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2006/10/01/niche_social_networks_powered_by_members_realworld_passions_are_gaining_advertising_traction.php After taking a dig at the huge, undifferentiated, and messy “social networks” like MySpace and Facebook, which are the press' and investors current darlings, I was gratified to read two recent articles about smaller, “niche” social networks and their... 66456@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2006-10-01T17:23:00-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2006/09/18/the_cultural_web_social_networking_ties_the_knot_in_india.php On Taulli.com, Ash Kumra, a member of the METal professional group to which I belong, recently blogged “Social Networking Ties the Knot?”, a brief, fascinating interview with Murugavel Janakiraman, CEO of the family of Indian websites, BharatMatrimony.com. I usually... 65725@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ Commentary 2006-09-18T16:38:28-07:00 http://totalexperience.corante.com/archives/2006/07/25/this_new_design_jobsite_rocks_coroflot_by_the_folks_who_brought_you_core_77.php Want a job in design, and specifically, experience design? Check out the new Coroflot, launched by Core77's Allan Chochinov and his colleagues. (That's Allan at the podium in this pic from Design 2.0.) Post a profile (with your portfolio, if... 62480@/home/corante/public_html/totalexperience/ The Practice of Experience Design 2006-07-25T22:56:23-07:00 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