Don’t Become a Digital DinosaurDesign for the Space Between@samanthastarmer
meUX & IA related work for places like Amazon, MicrosoftREI – Create and lead IA, UX, IxDteams (after about 5 other titles)Teach at University of Washington
Un-speaker?
Me.  lonely
a story…http://www.flickr.com/photos/seandreilinger/2959785536/
Palm Springs!
resort hotel!!
I am lucky
verdant
lush
foliage…lots of foliage
like The Secret Garden!
but…
I was tired
I needed an adult beverage$80 wine!!!
but I’m cheap…
…and car-less
I have to get out of a 13 acre resort
so, with a crappy map
 and a tip,
I finally find my way out
and escape to the real world
but now it is dark
and the lovely, secret foliage
with all of the nooks and crannies
that I got lost in during daylight
Is kinda scary
finally, thank god
now I really need a drink
At least for walking, exploring or doing anything not related to sitting by a pool and drinking
no sign policy
except…
experience only works if you stay within the Parker
a few days later…
leaving lovely hotel room
not the dreaded middle seat!http://www.flickr.com/photos/caribb/85819514/
getting flight # via email
check in via mobile app
I don’t want flight status!
okay, trying another way
flight not recognized
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mindaugasdanys/3766009204
Fine.  Old school check in.
experience only works if you stay within channel
lesson?http://www.flickr.com/photos/pjern/2150873799
design for the space between…http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrxception/4999592715
don’t design for just a website
an app
or a physical environment
Even if you think you only work on your website
we have no control
over how people hear about us
or get to us
the experience of transitions
70% of US online consumers research products online and purchase them offlineForrester, Profiling The Multichannel Consumer, July 2009
 65% of visitors to an online search engine were looking for further information in relation to a product or service they saw in a television commercial or in a newspaper advertisement.Pubblicitaoffline e ricercheneimotori, 2007From ‘Information Architecture for Ubiquitous Ecologies’, Andrea Resmini and Luca Rosati
interaction design not just digitalhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/aaronschmidt/1904501765/
digital and physical are colliding
technology is everywhere
internet of thingshttp://endtimesworldnews.punt.nl/upload/internet_of_things.JPG
this is a library without a single book…Digital Library, Seoul, Koreahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/future15/4587459646/
but
‘integrated experiences are few and far between’Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsinohttp://www.slideshare.net/designswarm/creating-the-internet-of-things
don’t design for technology, design for the holistic experience
design for the space between…http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrxception/4999592715
how?
information is the foundationhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/saroy/3455464539/
across channels
across channelsacross platforms
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshb/103547740http://www.flickr.com/photos/phrenzee/1447530226http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimbach/538233744http://www.flickr.com/photos/brownpau/2788253333/http://www.flickr.com/photos/stigster/3761714132/
across channelsacross platformsacross digital & physical
information ties the experience togetherhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/__olga__/4749585423/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alist/2584773454
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gohow-airport
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gohow-airport
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gohow-airport
information is the foundationhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/saroy/3455464539/
…predictable pathways of information are changing: the physical world itself is becoming a type of information system. http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/The_Internet_of_Things_2538
holistic storytelling experience across channels
content centric, platform agnostic
brand now content provider, not  a newspaper
think about consistency
shh…I’m going to show you…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/practicalowl/1423935574
 Website
 Email
Catalog
 Ad Campaigns
 In-Store Signage
 Packaging
 Product Information Guides
all the same productnot the same information  not the same experience
I’m the same customer in each interaction
think about the journey
Think about on ramps and off ramps
don’t just design for the front door
holistic experience at all entrances
back door
side door
holistic experience?
information is blurring the lines between products and services to create multi-channel, cross-platform, trans-media, physico-digital user experiencesPeter Morville
http://www.slideshare.net/morville/ubiquitous-ia
people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled.Ted Nelson
don’t get overwhelmedhttp://tlc.discovery.com/tv/hoarding-buried-alive/slideshows/before-and-after-episodes-1-4-02.html
leave your comfort zone
toolsmechanics
Experience Design
Service design
Customer experience
Customer relationship management
Multi-Channel communications

Don't Be a Digital Dinosaur: Design for the Space Between - Infocamp 2010 Plenary

Editor's Notes

  • #3 But most importantly (at least to this conversation), I spent 10 years in the restaurant and bar business and waited on a LOT of customers.
  • #4 But I had just arrived
  • #16 But I had just arrived
  • #34 I later learned that the Parker Hotel has a ‘no sign’ policy.
  • #35 They made us take off our conference badges anytime we left the conference ‘sequestering’ area. They yelled at us if we walked around the property with our badges on.
  • #41 Door picture
  • #44 I later learned that the Parker Hotel has a ‘no sign’ policy.
  • #47 I want to look into changing my seat while I check in for my flight, and don’t want to pull out and boot up my computer. Heck, I have an iPhone, I shouldn’t have to. I get my flight number via an email confirmation of my itinerary. And the email links me to a app to check in. Sweet.
  • #49 But the mobile app will only let me check flight status. Arrgh.
  • #50 Find the US Airways site (because I always forget the URL and end up at some advertising site instead)
  • #51 And the flight number that I just confirmed IS NOT RECOGNIZED.
  • #52 WAAAAAH. I can’t check in online. I can’t change my seat.
  • #53 Ritz carlton
  • #54 BUT. When I get to the airport the next morning, no one is at the US Airways desk. Not only that, there isn’t even a self service kiosk!!! I had to hang out in the check in area for over an hour before I could check in for my flight. And by then I couldn’t change my seat.
  • #55 BUT. When I get to the airport the next morning, no one is at the US Airways desk. Not only that, there isn’t even a self service kiosk!!! I had to hang out in the check in area for over an hour before I could check in for my flight. And by then I couldn’t change my seat.
  • #56 Door picture
  • #58 Ritz carlton
  • #59 Ritz carlton
  • #60 Ritz carlton
  • #61 Ritz carlton
  • #62 They hear about you from print advertising
  • #63 From all sorts of physical messaging
  • #107 Regardless of how I was interacting with the Parker – whether it was making a reservation online, calling them to check something about my reservation or physically at the hotel. I was the same person, the same customer interacting with them.
  • #110 Door picture
  • #126 There are a lot of tools to help you design for a holistic customer experience.
  • #127 And a lot of related disciplines.
  • #128 Ritz carlton