Opening the door was a 60 minute workshop by Elizabeth Buie and Alastair Somerville at UX Cambridge 2017. The workshop explained some core concepts of transcendent experiences. Participants then played a board game called Transhendance developed by Elizabeth Buie to explore how design could support individual experiences of transcendence.

1. Opening the Door
An Exploration of Design for Transcendent User
Experience
Elizabeth Buie
Alastair Somerville

2. Opening
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3. Meditation
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4. Welcome
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5. Elizabeth Buie
@ebuie
Sigma
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6. Alastair Somerville
@acuity_design
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7. Code of Conduct
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8. Code of Conversation
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9. Workshop plan
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10. Design
Make
Prototype
Iterate
Sell
Products
Services
Product Design Process
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11. Design
Make
Prototype
Iterate
Sell
Products
Services
Product Design Process
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12. Research
Art Play Design
Make
Prototype
Iterate
Sell
Artefacts
Metaphors
Stories
Culture Process Product Design Process
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Products
Services

13. Research
Art Play
Artefacts
Metaphors
Stories
Culture Process
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14. Workshop content:
Talking research
Playing games
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15. Workshop outputs:
Stories
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16. Questions?
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17. Let’s start
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18. Transcendent
experience
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19. Transcendent
experience
Activity not critical, may not
even matter
Awareness of self, connection
beyond oneself
Individual or communitarian
Short (seconds to minutes)
Wonder, awe, chills, tingles
Transformation
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20. Transformation
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21. Transformation
 Change in belief
 Loss of fear of death
 Acceptance
 Reduced anxiety
 Kindness
 Unburdening
 Release
 Freedom
 Change in values
 Calm
 Peace
 Joyfulness
 Resolution
 Accomplishment
 Open-mindedness
 Lovingness
 Growth
 Compassion

22. The Art of Losing Control
by Jules Evans

23. 1.The Entrance Gate
2.The Revival Tent
3.The Ecstatic Cinema
4.Rock and Roll Main Stage
5.Psychedelic Main Stage
6.The Contemplation Zone
7.The Tantric Sex Love Temple
8.The Mosh Pit
9.The Forest of Wonder
10.Futureland UX Cambridge 2017

24. Transcendent
experience
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25. TX
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26. Transcendent user
experience
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27. TUX
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28. We have to approach TUX
design obliquely
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29. Playing
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30. Transcendhance
The Game

31. The Game Board

32. Rules of the
Game
 Board spaces represent aspects of
context contributing to TUX
 Cards represent other TUX aspects
 Make a game piece and place it on
START
 Roll the die and move along the board
in the direction of the arrows
 If you land on the foot of a ladder or the
head of a snake, play your space
BEFORE sliding along it
 Draw TWO pink(ish) cards and ONE
each of the other colours — you will
have SIX total
 Sketch as many ideas as you can for
tech inspired by your board space and
cards
 IDEAS DO NOT HAVE TO BE
FEASIBLE!

33. On Board space:
Take 2 Pink Cards
And 1 of each of the other
colored Cards
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34. Let’s play
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35. What ideas did you sketch?
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36. Share together
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37. Stories we tell to others
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38. Curating
Collecting ideas for research
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39. Closing
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40. The end...
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41. ...there is no end
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