Comments on: Designing for experience vs experience design http://designingforexperience.com/2008/07/17/designing-for-experience-vs-experience-design/ A Holistic Approach to Design for People, Interaction, & Business Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:17:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: aaronh http://designingforexperience.com/2008/07/17/designing-for-experience-vs-experience-design/comment-page-1/#comment-171 aaronh Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:17:47 +0000 http://designingforexperience.com/?p=56#comment-171 Matthew- You are right, it is much more likely that many people will never use what is designed the way it was intended to be used by the designer, more often it is employed in much better ways, or without making any normative claims, they use it in ways which are different, but neither better or worse, simply what is needed or wanted. Matthew-
You are right, it is much more likely that many people will never use what is designed the way it was intended to be used by the designer, more often it is employed in much better ways, or without making any normative claims, they use it in ways which are different, but neither better or worse, simply what is needed or wanted.

]]> By: M.Jenkins http://designingforexperience.com/2008/07/17/designing-for-experience-vs-experience-design/comment-page-1/#comment-170 M.Jenkins Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:48:50 +0000 http://designingforexperience.com/?p=56#comment-170 I think it's OK to design for experience even without any guarantees of achieving that experience. There's no way 100% of the earth's population will ever "get" what you're trying to do - because you'd have to account for cultural history, web literacy, and an impossible number of other unknowns. Since design is an art, we must do like the artist. The composer makes beautiful music knowing full well the majority of listeners will not feel the experience to the fullest. The poet, doubly so. Nice blog! I think it’s OK to design for experience even without any guarantees of achieving that experience. There’s no way 100% of the earth’s population will ever “get” what you’re trying to do – because you’d have to account for cultural history, web literacy, and an impossible number of other unknowns.

Since design is an art, we must do like the artist. The composer makes beautiful music knowing full well the majority of listeners will not feel the experience to the fullest. The poet, doubly so.

Nice blog!

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