Experience design

We were talking about the World of Warcraft game in Jeff's class this afternoon. And he said he was very happy that they celebrated lunar new year. There were lanterns and fireworks here and there as decorations, and they were invited and teleported to their enemy's territory to celebrate together and ate dumplings which were supposed to give them some super powers. And unfortunately, they were killed on their way back to their own place.

First of all, I'd like to say that I feel very happy that people pay attention to our Chinese festival, and celebrate it online in their virtual life. This means a lot for me as a Chinese.

However, when we talking about experience design, my first response is that culture experience design should based on deeply understanding of the culture and pay attention to details. For example, the fireworks are alway covered by red paper in reality. Maybe sometimes their are some pictures on it, but the background color definitely should be red.

Secondly, the experience designer pay attention to people's emotion experience. Lunar new year is so important to Chinese not because we can reunion with family and friends, eat good food and get relax from work, but because that lunar new year means the end of the past, and another beginning of a new period of the journey of our life. Therefore, there are new hope and chance. We never talk about words like die, pain, illness, kill, hurt ... We believe that the Bodhisattva, the personifications of wealth and happiness drop by our houses and give us bless, lucky and new chance at the moment between the old lunar year and the new one.The emotions were perceived in the reality experience should be promoted by the experience design rather than changed.

At the last part of the class we discussed about toy design. Toy design is following the way of modeling things happened in reality world and the natural order of the existing world.