Designing Technology Augmented Urban Playgrounds for Girls – “Recent technological developments have made it possible to apply experience design also in the field of highly interactive product design, an area where involvement of non-trivial technology traditionally made it impossible to implement quick design cycles. With the availability of modular sensor and actuator kits, designers are able to quickly build interactive prototypes and realize more design cycles. In this paper we present a design process that includes experience design for the design of interactive products. The design process was developed for a master level course in product design. In addition, we discuss several cases from this course, applying the process to designing engaging interactive urban playgrounds.” (Aadjan van der Helm et al.)

Modelling the Relationship Between Designer Intent and Consumer Experience – “The design literature contains many diagrammatic models that represent the relationship between how designers intend artefacts to be experienced and how they are subsequently experienced by consumers, users and other stakeholders. Despite the prevalence of such models, they remain largely disconnected from each other, both within and across design disciplines, and also disconnected from the models of communication whose basic structure they share. The existing models are therefore difficult to locate and useful conceptual developments are often overlooked. The consequences of this are that unnecessary effort is expended in developing representations that duplicate those that already exist or new models are developed from inappropriate foundations. To address such issues, this article reviews many of the existing models that can be found in the different disciplines that comprise the fields of communication and design. The most pertinent features of these models are extracted and synthesised into a generic communication-based model of design. This acts as both a guide to what the existing models emphasise and an integrated foundation from which future models might be developed.” (Nathan Crilly, Anja Maier, P John Clarkson – Int’l Journal of Design Dec.2008)

Whitney Hess writes: “I especially enjoyed the recap — I think you hit the nail on the head.” (Keith Instone – Experienceologist)

“User experience (UX) represents the perception left in someone’s mind following a series of interactions between people, devices, and events – or any combination thereof. (…) A good user-experience designer needs to be able to see both the forest and the trees. That means user experience has implications that go far beyond usability, visual design, and physical affordances.” (Eric Reiss – FatDUX)

“The term ‘user experience’ or UX has been getting a lot of play, but many businesses are confused about what it actually is and how crucial it is to their success. I asked some of the most influential and widely respected practitioners in UX what they consider to be the biggest misperceptions of what we do. The result is a top 10 list to debunk the myths. Read it, learn it, live it.” (Whitney Hess – Mashable)

“FoodUX is a collection of inspirational web gems for user experience designers from the gastronomic and culinary arts.” (Composing Cook)

“User experience is all the rage. First impressions, consistent quality, matching online with offline, all that good stuff. Every year the same design conferences are full of the same talks. The slides might get shinier each year, but it’s the same guys making the same comparisons.” (Des Traynor – Contrast) – courtesy of lucraak