You’ve heard of product design, graphic design, fashion design, architecture, etc, but Experience Design is the invisible frontier of human engagement. As mobile technologies continue to get smaller and more capable, they are beginning to disappear from our physical awareness without letting go of our attention – in fact, they are cleverly meshing our physical and digital worlds into an integrated and augmented attention that can be interwoven with ‘stories’ to enhance our purpose, presence, sociability, etc.
Opportunity Statement
Experience Design is what mobile technologies were born to enable. We have lived so long with the monolithic linear narratives that were the best experiences our other media have been able to deliver, that the opportunity of authoring open, social, synchronous, real-world narratives is unliteral and unnatural for us. Welcome to the new natural, if you’re bold enough to author it. The opportunities for learning are breathtaking.
Prediction Source(s)
WIRED – Design & The Digital World
After reading this article, it amazes me how fast technology is moving forward. Many of the different technologies remind me of the movie “Minority Report”. As we continue to evolve, the size and simplicity of these and any newly developed technologies well increase.
I have held out on buying new gadgets in hopes that there would eventually be one that merges everyday functions into one very well designed and flexible device. Rather than carrying a cellphone, a tablet and a laptop, it would be so convenient if all of those devices were combined into one and that one device can be projected to a wall/bathroom mirror or a piece of glass. This would breakdown many of the barriers in the Education system to help integrate technology into a classroom.