The State of User Experience
One thing I love is when someone’s able to step back from the trees and see the forest. Few do that better than Jesse James Garrett. At our recent UXWeek event Jesse took appraisal of the State of User Experience, giving new perspective on what the intent and practice of user experience is all about, and what new challenges await us.
It’s important to take the time to watch this presentation because of the new footholds Jesse creates for UX. First and foremost, he takes on “mediumism” or the tendency for design to have to be about a medium rather than the medium-independent design of experiences. Then, he offers a practical definition of experience design that shows the strengths and missing of today’s UX practice in a new light:
“experience design: the design of anything, independent of medium or across media, with human experience as an explicit outcome and human engagement as an explicit goal.”
Watch the video, and Jesse will lay out the means by which we can tackle the challenge of human engagement head on. But be warned, “the user experience mindset is an acquired condition for which there is no cure.”
Jesse James Garrett | UX Week 2009 | Adaptive Path from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.
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[...] Experience Design and the State of User ExperienceIn this fascinating video from the recent Adaptive Path UX Week 2009 in San Francisco, Jesse James Garrett moves beyond medium-specific design – which he refers to as “mediumism” – to a broader concept of “experience design: the design of anything, independent of medium or across media, with human experience as an explicit outcome and human engagement as an explicit goal.” He goes on to explain how our designs must evolve to be not only visual but perceptual, which is to say not only limited to sight. As we engage with our users through increasingly diverse media and channels, each interaction is an experience which is an opportunity for design and we must “orchestrate the facets of experience design to accomplish our goals and deliver the kind of experience that we want our users to have.” [...]
Wonderful stuff. Great food for thought, as ever.
But why not permit other sites to display it? (Non-AP domains are restricted by AP’s vimeo settings.)
Oops - that vimeo setting was an oversight on our part and should be all fixed now! Thanks for the heads ups! Display away….
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