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Don Norman?s Three Legs of Human-Centered Product Development
At a high-level, Norman?s ?stool? diagram identifies the four primary components of successful products: ?the foundation of a solid business case with three supporting legs: technology, marketing, and user experience.? Technology ensures the required functions and performance are delivered at a reasonable cost. Marketing makes certain the features included are those that customers require and that the product is positively positioned in the marketplace. A solid business case ensures the product is ?providing the required attributes for a price that is acceptable to the consumers but that still yields a profit to the company.?
Jesse James Garrett?s Elements of User Experience
The terms and concepts that make up the user experience component of Norman?s system are outlined in Garrett?s tiered representation. These are the tasks and considerations that create a solid user experience focused on the ?needs, abilities, and thought processes of the users.?
Nathan Shedroff?s New Methods for Designing Experiences
Defining products more broadly as ?experiences? outlines the need for a broad set of multi-disciplinary expertise in the product development process. The convergence of these skills needs to be appropriately integrated to balance the three legs of Norman?s stool.
Peter Morville?s User Experience Honeycomb
A product?s success often depends on how it fulfills basic metrics. Is it usable, Desirable? Accessible? Peter Morville?s faceted user experience honeycomb outlines the key success metrics that should serve as the goals of product development teams.
Theories are important: they're tested short-cuts to knowledge that can be shared widely within the experience design community, including with new designers just setting out. If you think about it, it's pretty difficult to state a theory of experience design. Theories are rare in every design discipline, but in those where theories exist -- like the theory of taxonomical structure in information design or wayfinding theory in environmental design -- they're reliable guides to practice. Experience design is still considered mainly an art, because (in my opinion) of a radical disconnect between those who study experience (cognitive scientists, environmental psychologists, etc.) and the designers who create experiences. Sometimes I think that designers' ignorance of the pertinent science is almost willful, because science imposes constraints that require more than shoot-from-the-hip creativity to succeed. On the other hand, it may just be that designers are practicing remarkable heuristic feats, doing the science in their heads. (All of this goes for the ancillary professions marshalled to support designers, too, like ethnographers and market researchers.)Otros que piden parcela en la urbanización de la ciencia. ¿Por qué no quiere quedarse el artesano, el práctico, en el rural en que vive? ¿Podemos trasladar todas las artes y técnicas a la urbe científica (ya casi megápolis)? Es la vida de todos también la de la ciencia. Sin influencia no vales lo mismo (ni tampoco puedes cobrarlo, o pretender cobrarlo)
The term user experience communicates the reality that the success of a digital product doesn’t end with its technology or the design of its user interface. It must extend all the way to users’ perception of that design and their experience of interacting with it.