Experience Design

Concepts and Case Studies

Peter Benz

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781472569394
• eBook ISBN: 9781472571090
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Design
• Subtopic: Design General

How can we design better experiences? Experience Design brings together leading international scholars to provide a cross-section of critical thinking and professional practice within this emerging field. Contributors writing from theoretical, empirical and applied design perspectives address the meaning of 'experience'; draw on case studies to explore ways in which specific 'experiences' can be designed; examine which methodologies and practices are employed in this process; and consider how experience design interrelates with other academic and professional disciplines.

Chapters are grouped into thematic sections addressing positions, objectives and environments, and interactions and performances, with individual case studies addressing a wide range of experiences, including urban spaces, the hospital patient, museum visitors, mobile phone users, and music festival
and restaurant goers.

Table of contents

• FC
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Foreword and Acknowledgements
• About the Authors
• Editorial Introduction and Considerations Matthew Turner
• Part One Positions
• 1 Fundamental Aspects of Human Experience: A Phenomeno(logical) Explanation Ian Coxon
• 2 Experience as Excursion: A Note towards a Metaphysics of Design Thinking Connie Svabo and Michael Shanks
• 3 How Much Time Does it Take for Experience Design to Unfold? Catherine Elsen and Pierre Leclercq
• 4 Experiential Equality and Digital Discrimination Linda Leung
• Part Two Objects and Environments
• 5 Narrativity of Object Interaction Experiences: A Framework for Designing Products as Narrative Experiences Silvia Grimaldi
• 6 Centers of Experience: Bodies and Objects in Today’s Museums Xavier Acarin and Barbara Adams
• 7 Space, Experience, Identity, and Meaning Peter Benz
• 8 Four Themes to (Phenomenologically) Understand Contemporary Urban Spaces Lakshmi P. Rajendran, Stephen Walker, and Rosie Parnell
• Part Three Interactions and Performances
• 9 Co-Producing a Festival Experience: A Socio-Material Understanding of Experience Design Sara M. Strandvad and Kristine M. Pedersen
• 10 CurioUs: The Logic of Performance Amy Findeiss, Eulani Labay, and Kelly Tierney
• 11 Designing for a Better Patient Experience Gretchen C. Rinnert
• 12 Designing Mobile User Experiences: A Framework for a Design Methodology Claus Østergaard
• 13 Suspending Reality: A Disruptive Approach to Designing Transformative Experiences Tara Mullaney
• 14 Understanding and Designing the Meal Experience and its Psychological Consequences Werner Sommer, Felix Bröcker, Manuel Martín-Loeches, Annekathrin Schacht, and Birgit Stürmer
• Further Readings
• References
• Index