Reflection on 22 Jan class

From today's class, Mr. Reddy helps to reaffirms my analysis that user experience is something very subjective. This is further proven by the class activity - smelling of perfumes. I was so surprised that one of the perfume in which I think it smells like a perfume for an old man is actually for women!!

In addition to that, a new insight was gained. That is, there is no way one can ever design user experience, but what one can do is to design occasion for experiences.

Although I realized that it can be very subjective, I have never ever thought of it as not being able to create. It may be because consumers of products tend to take things for granted. Like what Mr. Reddy mentioned, when something is good it is good. One will enjoy the experience and thought or rather expect that the product is designed to be meant that way. The user will not think from the point of the designer and give thoughts about the process in which it is being created. It is hard to think from the view of the designer I guess, till you are in his/her shoes. It is hard to realize that it is actually true that one cannot design user experience (unless someone pointed out to you) because it is upon the individual to interpret the product. The users' interpretation is something uncontrollable. As such, the only thing a designer can do is to create flavourable moments that will make the users enjoy the process of using the product. However, I have yet to be enlightened on how we can create such instances. I guess these would be taught in the later dates...