Digital New Media products offer a range of asthetic, ethic and functional qualities that need to be considered while creating those systems. Qualities such as enjoyment, fulfilment and fun are not properties of the used technology. They are better thought of as outcomes of certain kinds of experience with or through this technologies. In order to design those experience factors, you first must understand and analyse the experience of use, to understand what might make a product more pleasing or enjoyable to use. more »

What makes a interactive system successful? Is it a beautiful, usable interface? Is it an unbelievable set of features? Or does it simply satisfy the users needs? Of course it’s a little bit of all, but what makes a product really successful is the context of experience. It is offering the user a context to enjoy working and / or playing with all his senses. This is, what makes it more than a single product. more »

What makes websites successfull? Doubtless it’s the content and functionality it provides to its users combined with some appealing design. But what is it that makes some websites so outstanding that almost everyone has heared about them? It’s the experience they offer. It’s how they come to live and are interpreted when they are handed over to the users. more »

Influence can be described as changing a person’s thoughts, feelings and behaviors. In this way, influence is just an umbrella term for persuasion. This compliance is also achieved without exerting force and that sounds great for the web where the users aren’t forced to do anything. more »

A good website is build upon more than just nice, clean code and good looking graphics. A site that really works fullfills the strategic objectives of the company while meeting the needs of the users. Even the best technology and the latest content can’t fix a broken concept and an inconsitant user experience design. more »

Good software products are more then just usable and effective. They stimulate and motivate the user to work with them and to perform a certain task. These factors can be used to describe the soft qualities of a system beside the technical ones like stability, performance and features. more »