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 »
As user-centered approaches in digital product development get more and more attention, information architecture and interaction design have become two of the main tools for creating unique user experiences. Both are fundamentally about people, about how they use the products and services and how they interact with and get connected through them. 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 »
Designing for mobile devices is often compared with designing for desktop systems – same principles, just in small. That might be true up to a certain degree (some basic findings of usage, usability or interaction design can be applied to both), but the mobile experience is more complex. It is set up of social, contextual and engineering factors that intermingle fluently and form a mobile experience with the user in its middle. more »
Submit Now teaches what it means to go beyond usability, graphical design and marketing and to make your web site as perusasive as possible. It focuses on helping users to transact on the web an enlights them and their different needs from a new perspective. more »
