Experience Design Examples

Information Design | Interaction Design | Narrative | Non-linear Narrative | Storytelling | Agents | Communitites

Information Design Examples:

  • Time's Arrow
    by Martin Amis
    1991, Harmony Books
    Hardback, US$18
    ISBN 0-517-58515-4
    Review
  • Vietnam War Memorial
    This is the best example I know of how the organization of data can produce not only a beautiful, physical monument, but an intense, emotional experience. Any other organization but chronological would have altered every aspect of this environment's design.
  • Dutch Paper Money
    Not only is this paper money beautiful, but it is color-coded by denomination with large, clear numbers so each amount is quickly and easily read. Additionally, for the blind, the sizes are slightly different and there are raised bumps that distinguish each denomination by touch.
  • MacOS Interface
    Apple Computers
    Even though computers have grown more complex and feature-laden, this is still the best commercial example of how personal computers can help people organize their resources and understand how to use the capabilities of an operating system.
  • Simon Weisenthal Center Museum of Tolerance
    The presentation and organization of this Holocaust Museum is innovative, sensitive, and powerful. Using different points of views to present the information and build the story is brilliantly handled. The interactive exhibits could be more powerful and engaging, but this museum deserves credit for targeting the subject of tolerance (of many different cultures) instead of merely building a shrill memorial.
  • Powers of Ten Video
    Powers of Ten Book
    by Philip and Phyllis Morrison and Charles and Ray Eames
    Scientific American Library: ISBN: 0-7167-6008-8
    Movie: 1968
    What a brilliant and clear way of orienting ourselves in our universe and in our bodies.
  • 1040 short form
    Though this form can be better (and should probably be updated), it is a marvel of clarity compared to the rest of the tax system. If only all of the forms and instructions could be approached in the same way. The original design by Siegal & Gale (which this was based on) was even better.
  • The movie Memento by Christopher Nolan.
    This movie is all about finding and piecing together bits of information to make meaning. The movie itself is run backward much like Times Arrow above.
  • NO. Apple Computers Corporate Identity Manual
    Short, clear, to the point, and organized around the most common faux pas. This is a useful, informative, and handy presentation of the right way and the wrong way to use Apple's corporate logo, complete with good and bad examples and contextual information.
  • SMART Yellow Pages, Pacific Bell Directory
    The second year's work is still the best (the system is all but destroyed now). This was the first recognition that there are several different ways to find the information in a phone book and that phone directories are the best guide to any community. Clear maps, marvelously organized Subject Searches, and the best icons I have ever seen have filled these directories.
  • Colors Magazine
    Every issue is fascinating, informing, and humorous. The information is presented clearly, but with so much style and fun, you never stop to realize it. The messages are powerful, worldly, and successfully communicated.
  • ACCESSPress Travel Guides,
    ACCESSPress, Harper Perennial
    I wish there were ACCESS guides for every city I want to visit and every important subject that interests me. The location-oriented information helps me understand the city before I even arrive. It is the best way to visit a city, and the best way to relive it after I've already returned home.
  • Grranimals
    Yeah, the clothes were kinda tacky, but what a great concept. Match the tags and you have a winning outfit. This idea should be reborn for the Dockers set and mandatorily enforced for celebrities at awards ceremonies.
  • Sesame Street
    There are three distinct layers of information presented here, all with sophisticated humor. The first is the teaching of letters, numbers, relationships, behavior, etc. The second is the humor wrapped around these lessons. And the third are the jokes that fly way over the kid's heads meant for the adults watching with them. This show never falls short of being both entertaining AND educational. Just don't call it edutainment!
  • Underground, by David Macauly
    Not only are the drawings beautiful, but the subject and information is fascinating. You almost forget that you are learning new things you never thought you'd be interested in before and the perspectives are a true privilege.
     

Interaction Design Examples:

  • PlaceHolder
    Virtual Precense research project by Brenda Laurel and team while at Interval Research and the Banff Institute
  • OSMOSE

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Interesting Narrative Examples:

  • Einstein's Dreams
    by Alan Lightman
    ISBN 044667011-
    Warner Books
  • Time's Arrow
    by Martin Amis
    1991, Harmony Books
    ISBN 0517585154
    Review
  • Six Degrees of Separation
    Play by John Guare, Film by Fred Schepisi
    USA, 1993, 112 min, R
    Director (movie): Fred Schepisi
    Starring: Stockard Channing, Donald Sutherland, and Will Smith

Glenn A. Kurtz's HyperText/Non-Linear Narrative Examples:

Information Design | Interaction Design | Narrative | Non-linear Narrative | Storytelling | Agents | Communitites

Interesting Storytelling Examples:

Interesting Agent Examples:

  • Wildfire Communications (voice-activated, automated assistant)
  • Apple's Rosebud WAIS Search technology interface involving "Reporters" as a representation of knowledgeable agents.
  • Spyonit Net Agent

Interesting Community Examples:

Information Design | Interaction Design | Narrative | Non-linear Narrative | Storytelling | Agents | Communitites

For more examples of Experiences, try the examples from Experience Design 1 as well as Experiences from around the world

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