{"id":561,"date":"2015-05-01T22:12:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T22:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neovita.com\/thoughts\/?p=561"},"modified":"2016-01-17T06:23:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T06:23:20","slug":"experience-creationism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/experience-creationism\/","title":{"rendered":"Experience creationism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I am not divine. I can not <em>design<\/em> experiences. But you can expect me to <em>enable<\/em> experiences.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><q><em>Experience<\/em> \u2013 change in a persons subjective state of reality based on interaction with their environment<\/q><\/p>\n<p><q><em>Design<\/em> \u2013 to think up and plan out in the mind<\/q> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordcentral.com\/cgi-bin\/student?book=Student&amp;va=design\">(Wordcentral)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><q><em>Creationism<\/em> \u2013 the belief that the universe and life originate &#8216;from specific acts of divine creation.&#8217;\u00a0<\/q> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Creationism\">(Wikipedia)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In my profession I am sometimes called a User Experience Designer. This title is problematic to me due to an experience being a subjective change of a persons mental state. No two persons (&#8220;users&#8221;) experience their interaction with an artefact the same. Thus I can never plan and think up (I.E. design) an experience for someone else or even for myself. To be able to design an experience I would have to know a persons full state of mind beforehand and create an individualized artefact based on that. Sounds pretty divine, does it not?<\/p>\n<p>Every day I think about how persons can interact with artefacts in ways that are meaningful, fun and efficient. I leave negative space in various parts of Orkideprat.se because it enables members to leave their mark on the site. I chose side-swipe and tap as the main interaction patterns in Barnplay.se because they are understandable even for very young kids. These acts of design enable persons to have experiences.<\/p>\n<p><q><em>Enable<\/em> \u2013 to give power, means, competence, or ability to&#8230;<\/q> <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/enable\">(Reference.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Instead of expecting creationism from me, I invite you to expect me to enable experiences. I am an experience enabler.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not divine. I can not design experiences. But you can expect me to enable experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19,22,9],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-critique","category-interaction-design","category-language","category-process"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/experience-creationism.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oninteractions.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}