Experience-Is-King

This blog explores new forms of experience, economy, perceptions, information and innovation
April 8, 2008

Two Monologues Do not Make a Dialogue: Preview of Norman’s “Design of Future Things”

Posted by : Kaushik Ghosh

A quick preview of Don Norman’s next work "Design of Future Things", looks intriguing in the 1st chapter itself. He discusses the idiom of interaction between human and smart systems that are going to have a lot of work delegated to, in the years to come. His unique insights about human behavioral dispositions with [...]


January 24, 2008

Unbundling for innovation: An Essay by Phil Agre, UCLA

Posted by : Kaushik Ghosh

A few years back I came across a very interesting article by Phil Agre , Associate Professor of Information Studies at UCLA. I liked that article so much that I kept in my mail box for about 6 years until I discovered it a few days ago.
He talked about a very interesting anti establishment approach [...]


December 10, 2007

From ‘Instrumental’ to ‘Experiential’: Evolutions in Human Centered System Design

Posted by : Kaushik Ghosh

Human Factors Engineers and Ergonomists would argue that ‘User Experience’ is relatively a new term and definitely a buzzword. It is an attempt to re-package the old technique with a new age gimmick. The academic community has been engaged with this issue for some time now. Some interesting discussions in this context has been posted [...]