Comments on: Experience Design Checkoff List http://lawsofsimplicity.com/2007/05/21/experience-design-checkoff-list/ simplicity resources for design, business, technology, and life Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:45:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: maeda http://lawsofsimplicity.com/2007/05/21/experience-design-checkoff-list/#comment-4396 Sun, 27 May 2007 19:32:01 +0000 http://lawsofsimplicity.com/2007/05/21/experience-design-checkoff-list/#comment-4396 Okay, will try to do so Mukund. You too. Regards, John Okay, will try to do so Mukund. You too. Regards, John

]]> by: Mukund Mohan http://lawsofsimplicity.com/2007/05/21/experience-design-checkoff-list/#comment-4395 Sun, 27 May 2007 15:47:11 +0000 http://lawsofsimplicity.com/2007/05/21/experience-design-checkoff-list/#comment-4395 Hey John Just got to your blog. Great work. Subscribed. I have to read your book too, just put it on my Amazon wishlist. Keep it going. Hey John
Just got to your blog. Great work. Subscribed.

I have to read your book too, just put it on my Amazon wishlist.

Keep it going.

]]> by: maeda http://lawsofsimplicity.com/2007/05/21/experience-design-checkoff-list/#comment-4387 Tue, 22 May 2007 11:20:17 +0000 http://lawsofsimplicity.com/2007/05/21/experience-design-checkoff-list/#comment-4387 Hi Bob, Thanks for pointing out a fatal flaw in my simplified version here that did concern me. I agree that all models are freely interpretable, and that it is likely there are a small number of "correct" interpretations for any model. Maybe I'll make a more complex version in the future to make it "more right." For now it's a note to myself to do something later. Best, John PS I like your point about how this just reduces everything to having a storyline as a basis. Like our writing teachers once said simply, "Everything should have a beginning, middle, and end." Eevn when you might fit that model, it doesn't mean that you have something well written. Hi Bob, Thanks for pointing out a fatal flaw in my simplified version here that did concern me. I agree that all models are freely interpretable, and that it is likely there are a small number of “correct” interpretations for any model. Maybe I’ll make a more complex version in the future to make it “more right.” For now it’s a note to myself to do something later. Best, John

PS I like your point about how this just reduces everything to having a storyline as a basis. Like our writing teachers once said simply, “Everything should have a beginning, middle, and end.” Eevn when you might fit that model, it doesn’t mean that you have something well written.

]]> by: Bob Jacobson http://lawsofsimplicity.com/2007/05/21/experience-design-checkoff-list/#comment-4386 Tue, 22 May 2007 06:39:26 +0000 http://lawsofsimplicity.com/2007/05/21/experience-design-checkoff-list/#comment-4386 Well done, John, but you know -- the simplicity of your form only calls out more overtly the essential uselessness of the Doblin model. No disrespect meant to Doblin, which has broken more ground than most of us will ever cover, but the five moments in the experience design process, as identified by Doblin, have so many degrees of freedom in their interpretation, they could mean anything. And by now, because Doblin's brand carries so much prestige, there must be dozens or even hundreds of designers applying this model, and not really knowing what they're doing at all. Nor could the rest of us evaluate their success, since the model basically blesses any "designed" experience with a storyline. Well done, John, but you know — the simplicity of your form only calls out more overtly the essential uselessness of the Doblin model. No disrespect meant to Doblin, which has broken more ground than most of us will ever cover, but the five moments in the experience design process, as identified by Doblin, have so many degrees of freedom in their interpretation, they could mean anything. And by now, because Doblin’s brand carries so much prestige, there must be dozens or even hundreds of designers applying this model, and not really knowing what they’re doing at all. Nor could the rest of us evaluate their success, since the model basically blesses any “designed” experience with a storyline.

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