Human experience

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Human experience is a person-focused alternative to the terminology “user experience” that encompasses both usability and how the experience of using something makes people feel; it is also more aligned with the IndieWeb’s tagline of a “people-focused alternative…” (Emphasis added).

Thoughts

replace UX with HX

Consider exploring renaming the existing UX (and UI) pages accordingly to HX (and HI) equivalents and long forms, and retaining subsections on UX/UI for historical purposes.

• capjamesg 2024-11-15: "Let's replace "user experience with human experience"

In particular, in the context of this wiki, merging HX into the existing UX page and then renaming it to human experience accordingly, relegating prior UX-specific notes/discussion to a historical section.

Articles

A few articles on human experience and design to consider when thinking about renaming/reframing the UX page accordingly:

• https://research.perkinswill.com/labs/experience/
• https://uxplanet.org/a-hyper-reality-world-human-experience-design-principles-vr-case-study-226bcf509703?gi=16296d9fe558
• https://whitneyhess.com/blog/2011/02/27/why-i-detest-the-term-lean-ux/
• https://uxdesign.cc/so-long-user-experience-hello-human-experience-b3ee694e6fa3?gi=80a52365d515
• https://www.ceros.com/blog/human-experience-design/
• University Degrees on Human Experience:
  • https://www.csulb.edu/design/master-of-arts-human-experience-design-interactions-hxdi
  • https://www.usu.edu/degrees-majors/human-experience-design-and-interaction_bs

See Also

• user-experience
• https://microformats.org/wiki/about

  Designed for humans first and machines second…

  Emphasis added.