{"id":46,"date":"2007-09-18T06:44:11","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T11:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/18\/what-is-user-experience\/"},"modified":"2019-10-14T18:30:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T23:30:06","slug":"what-is-user-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/18\/what-is-user-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"What is User Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/User_experience\">Wikipedia <\/a>defines User Experience as:   a term used to describe the overall experience and satisfaction a user has when using a product or system. It most commonly refers to a combination of software and business topics, such as selling over the web, but it applies to any result of interaction design. Interactive voice response systems, for instance, are a frequently mentioned design that can lead to a poor user experience. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathan.com\/ed\/glossary\/index.html\">Nathan.com<\/a> defines users experience as : The overall experience, in general or specifics, a user, customer, or audience member has with a product, service, or event. In the Usability field, this experience is usually defined in terms of ease-of-use. However, the experience encompasses more than merely function and flow, but the understanding compiled through all of the senses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So what exactly is User Experience? <\/strong><br \/>\nAt the highest level it is the feeling a user has before, during and after using your site (or web application).<\/p>\n<p>User experience mixes principles like usability, visual design, business objectives, information architecture and navigational design (to name a few) all together to produce a set result. If done correctly this result will be a website with a good user experience. Different types of websites produce different types of experiences however the fundamental principals are the same. You might compare user experience to baking a cake. The cake flavor may be different yet the core ingredients are the same. <\/p>\n<p>Also, much like a cake where no one ingredient can stand alone neither can one experience principle. It is the collective whole that forms the basis of the experience. <\/p>\n<p>Creating an experience that meets the need of your customers as well as your business is challenging. However, when done correctly the benefits of user experience is a big competitive advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia defines User Experience as: a term used to describe the overall experience and satisfaction a user has when using a product or system. It most commonly refers to a combination of software and business topics, such as selling over the web, but it applies to any result of interaction design. Interactive voice response systems, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-small-business","category-website-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}