Stuck in menu overload, swamped by unwanted advertising, frustrated by not understanding the command structure, terminology or gesture needed to get a device to sit up and pay attention to your intention? Welcome to the areas of UX interstitial space. UX interstitial space is the blend of psychological, logical and linear combined with emotional and intuitive intention on the one (human) side and the binary, designed, and engineered side on the other (device) side. Too frequently these don't mesh easily, resulting in an angry experience and all too frequently 'abandonment'; the term for when a person just gives up in frustration and does something else.
Developing a New UX Product
The best new products--and the most successful--solve real problems in a way that no one has thought to previously address. Often, the problem(s) solved come as a cluster of needs, which appear to be insoluble, even unrelated. Existing hegemonies may appear to counter-indicate new solutions. The logic of the status quo is not a good tool in opening a window to new product categories.
UX EXCELLENCE BY UNDERSTANDING ARCHETYPE, ARCHITECTONICS OBSERVATIONS
This situation today is a de facto duopoly. Those who benefit are most fundamentally Apple and Google. This is born out by the stock market and the Interbrand 100, where Apple and Google are respectively the #1 and #2 most valuable brands in the world today. The fact that both systems work by forcing everyone to purchase software through either the Apple Store or the Play Store and to use the same antiquated interface and decades old data storage system is further evidence of the duopoly.
Archetype in Digital Design, 2
To understand UX on an archetypal level is to understand human needs and motivation on an archetypal level. If dull information rises to a level of stunning impression is it flowing backwards, sideways or forwards?
Archetype in Digital Design, 1
Archetype in digital design is an access point to discovery of what works and why for UX designers today. Archetype refers to varying postures of perspective—lenses through which we all view our world. If I show you a picture of a castle, you won’t have any difficulty identifying several key components, even though you might... Continue Reading →