This blog is dedicated to Jesse and Maya's Wednesday morning section of Introduction to Experience Design at the Ontario College of Art and Design, Winter 2009.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Exercise 4. Gretchen Romin
The object that I love the most is my 3rd generation Ipod nano. I bought the ipod nano 3 years ago with my own money, which makes it even more special. There are no buttons on the ipod but the ipod has the signature click wheel that allows you to scroll up and down through your play list. It also has a menu button to take you to different components in the ipod and also to the main menu of your ipod. At the button of the wheel there is a play icon. This allows you to play and pause your music and videos. The middle button is used for selecting. The screen is much more wider and allows you to watch your movies or videos in wide screen. The headphone jack and the hold switch are all located at the bottom making it easier to find them. The one object that I can’t stand is the Nexxtech 4-in-1 Universal remote controller. The controller always seems to break and once it does, you can’t change the channel or the volume on the TV. The worst thing about it is that once it break you have to enter a code in the controller according to your TV type (i.e. LG, Insignia, Sony). When that doesn’t work, there is a button that has a “P” oh it and you have to hold it down until the red light is solid. Once it does that you have to keep on pressing channel up until the channel changes. Then when it changes channel you have to press enter so the controller will recognize the TV. If you forget to press enter after the channel has changed, the controller will freeze and would have to start the whole process all over again.
Experience design is the practice of designing products, processes, services, events, and environments - each of which is a human experience – with the specific focus of the design activity being the quality of the user experience. In turn, the quality of any experience is a combination of factors which include individual or group needs, desires, beliefs, knowledge, skills, experiences, and perceptions. Experience design combines technological innovation with social innovation, psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, architecture and environmental design, information design, ethnography, brand management, interaction design, service design, storytelling and heuristics.
The object that I love the most is my 3rd generation Ipod nano. I bought the ipod nano 3 years ago with my own money, which makes it even more special. There are no buttons on the ipod but the ipod has the signature click wheel that allows you to scroll up and down through your play list. It also has a menu button to take you to different components in the ipod and also to the main menu of your ipod. At the button of the wheel there is a play icon. This allows you to play and pause your music and videos. The middle button is used for selecting. The screen is much more wider and allows you to watch your movies or videos in wide screen. The headphone jack and the hold switch are all located at the bottom making it easier to find them.
The one object that I can’t stand is the Nexxtech 4-in-1 Universal remote controller. The controller always seems to break and once it does, you can’t change the channel or the volume on the TV. The worst thing about it is that once it break you have to enter a code in the controller according to your TV type (i.e. LG, Insignia, Sony). When that doesn’t work, there is a button that has a “P” oh it and you have to hold it down until the red light is solid. Once it does that you have to keep on pressing channel up until the channel changes. Then when it changes channel you have to press enter so the controller will recognize the TV. If you forget to press enter after the channel has changed, the controller will freeze and would have to start the whole process all over again.
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