Jag kikade på ett TEDtalk med Joseph Pine på tåget imorse och en sak fick mig att kvickt ta en skärmdump av podcast:en (därav grynigheten i bilden ovan) och försöka skriva av en passage av föreläsningen, nämligen detta:
Coffee at its core is what? It’s a bean. Coffee is worth 2-3 cents per cup when treated as a commodity, a bean. But grind it, roast it, pack it and put it on a grocery shelf and now it’s worth 12-15 cents when treated as a good. Take that same good and perform the service of actually brewing it for the customer, in a corner, diner, a bodega or kiosk somewhere, you’ll get 50 cents and maybe a buck per cup of coffee. But surround that cup of coffee with the ambiance of a Starbuck’s, with the authentic theater that goes inside of there, and with that authentic experience you can charge 3, 4 or even 5 dollars for a cup.
Det är upplevelsen som jag som användbarhetstomte vill försöka finna, fånga och nyttja för att göra användare nöjda och glada. Det är också temat för boken Subject to Change, skriven av en grupp sådana tomtar på Adaptive Path. De definierar upplevelse så här:
When a person engages with your products, services, and environments, a set of distinctly human qualities comes into play. A person's experience emerges from these qualities:
- Motivations: why they are engaged with your offering, and what they hope to get out of it
- Expectations: the preconceptions they bring to how something works
- Perceptions: the ways in which your offering affects their senses (see, hear, touch, smell, taste)
- Abilities: how they are able to cognitively and physically interact with your offering
- Flow: how they engage with your offering over time
- Culture: the framework of codes (manners, language, rituals), behavioral norms, and systems of belief within which the person operates
When someone says they've had a good or a bad experience, what they're talking about is how a product, service, or environment did or didn't satisfactorily address these qualitites.
Jag hade inte formaliserat det själv så här innan jag läste denna bok, men känslan har (i alla fall enligt min självbild :) suttit i knoppen/kroppen ganska länge. Skönt att få sådant bekräftat. Nu ska jag bara omsätta det i praktik också...