UPDATE:
Since I wrote this, I found out that Human Experience Design is actually a thing. UX for VR that is. When I wrote this I was thinking about something deeper than VR.
(Originally Published on Medium on Dec 7, 2020)
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The ultimate User Experience is what I now call Human Experience and it is happening while we live our life.
An important part of this Human Experience is when we are dreaming. When we are dreaming unconscious parts of our Self, our close ones and our society act very much like Big Data.
In the Process of Dreaming, you, as the person experiencing “the experience/your dream that is” are getting exactly what you need at the time. “Magical Cookies” are collected during the day, when you experience life, and at night “Natural Big Data” is doing its work. You dream exactly what you need, or what you think that you need at the moment. It’s your psyches way of balancing stuff.
One interesting part is that we are now creating another layer to this experience with the digital worlds we are collectively designing. Both as product designers and as product users.
As a person with an experience in altered states of consciousness I no longer want to call this “User” Experience Design, I call it “Human” Experience Design.
The “product” is whatever we are doing and interacting with, and, our environment.
For example, I am now typing on the keyboard. You could say I am experiencing something that someone at Lenovo carefully thought about when designing the laptop.
But apart from that I have my nephew in my back, clicking on his computer playing Fortnite. Further away my sister is cooking in the kitchen. My stomach is excited about mashed potatoes.
So no matter how carefully someone at Lenovo designed this keyboard there are an infinite ways to experience it and it’s gonna be different every time for every human being experiencing it.
As Persons experiencing a digital or physical product we are now constantly making it better as data is collected byte by byte.
As Digital Creators in the digital realm, we have a huge responsibility. We are educating “digital children” both metaphorically and literally(thinking of my nephew behind me). We are altering the experience of the Persons living and consuming our creation, most of the time, a commercial product.
But, both as persons experiencing something on the web and creators of experiences, what are we making better? Why? Better at what? For what purpose? How? Who is ultimately gaining and What are they gaining?
These are few of the questions that arise in this process.
I do have to admit that maybe it’s a bit to radical and blunt, we have to make room for some compromise and adapt to what can be done in todays reality.
I want to stir this back to the dream world. Maybe that is where I need to pay more attention. How do night time dreams really come about? Who is storing all of the “cookies”? What are they doing with them? Why?
Verse, Universe, Uni-verse, United Verse?
(Just some fun with words).