Can experience be designed at all?

December 12, 2002

v-2's interview with Nathan of the late great vivid studios has some great arguments on why information architeture and visual design is not the end all to developing the user experience. As I have heard Nathan describe in the past, a user experience is made up of many elements that are all too often lost in the shuffle of visual design and information architecture.

In many respects, he argues that Experience Design as he has described in his book is an umbrella term that covers information architecture, interaction design, sensoral design (visual/graphic design along with audio, voice, intent, and personal experience) combined with other contexts like socialogical and pshycological to help shape an user experience solution.