Beyond Usability: Designing the Complete User Experience
Jeffrey Veen’s recent talks, on Beyond Usability and Designing for Web 2.0, given at Web Essentials are now available for download as PDF slideshows and MP3 podcasts here…
Beyond Usability: Designing the Complete User Experience is a great whistlestop tour on why the broader user experience is increasingly more important than usability alone.
This is quite a well established idea within the interaction design/usability/user experience/IA field. The first concept model I was introduced to for “experience design” rather than bare bones usability was Whitney Quesenbury’s “5 E’s”, which details five key factors that can be combined to create the right experience for a particular context/set of users. Her intial article is still very usability-focused, but she does talk about the “engaging” qualities of interaction design as being a key factor to consider. (Link: http://www.wqusability.com/articles/getting-started.html)