Continuing Pretending for a living - why actors are all UX designers
Pretending for a living - why actors are all UX designers
Jon Dixon at UX Brighton 2013
Related reading
Books, research, ideas and people referenced in this talk.
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Concepts
- PersonasPersonas are a common UX stand-in for role-play: inventing a coherent character to design and test against.
- EmpathyActing craft and UX both depend on inhabiting someone else's goals, constraints and emotional state.
- Participatory designParticipatory and role-play methods bring stakeholders into enacted scenarios rather than abstract requirements.
Projects and resources
- IDEO JournalIDEO's public writing often covers enactment, prototyping and human-centred storytelling in design practice.
