It is about creating an experience through a device.Īuthor/Copyright holder: Courtesy of Rikke Friis Dam and Mads Soegaard. This is the challenge designers and vendors of interactive products face: Experience or User Experience is not about good industrial design, multi-touch, or fancy interfaces. The Philips Wake-Up Light has nevertheless the power to "transcend its encasing" because its contribution is not one to the aesthetics of things, but to the aesthetics of experiences. See section "Exceptions" in the copyright terms below. Copyright terms and licence: All Rights Reserved. The object itself, its form, is rather unremarkable (see Figure 1).Īuthor/Copyright holder: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. And more importantly, it substantially changes the way one wakes up. Admittedly, it is a surrogate experience, but so are love stories and travel novels. It reaches its maximum at the set wake-up time and then the electronic birds kick in to make sure that you really get up. Half an hour before the set alarm, the lamp starts to brighten gradually, simulating sunrise. This is a crossing of an alarm clock and a bedside lamp. In fact, the experience I described in the beginning was not created by sun and birds, but by Philips' Wake-Up Light. The question is whether we can create technology which understands the crucial features of sunrise and birds and which succeeds in delivering a similar experience, even when the sun refuses to shine and the birds have already left for Africa.
The wake-up experience created by an alarm clock substantially differs from the experience created by sunrise and happy birds.
#My painful journey mark david reiss how to
This chapter is about experiences created and shaped through technology (aka User Experience) and how to deliberately design those. Are you jealous of my morning routine? Were you startled out of your sleep by a merciless alarm clock? Was it dark outside, no birds around, and did you feel groggy and bleary-eyed? It is only 6:30 o'clock in the morning, but I feel well-rested and alive time to get up, to brew some coffee. Lush light floods the room, birds chatter.
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