Silence is golden

I’ve definitely been quiet on here lately, since I started at EchoUser in June.  For my oft-updated blog presence, be sure to check out The EchoUser Experience, our company blog on all things experience design related.

I’d also encourage you to follow me on my EchoUser Posterous blog, where I point out the minutae from day to day that affect my…well, my life experience.  Think of it as a digest form of my brain

And finally, don’t forget to follow me on Twitter at @felixdesroches, my new aggregated Twitter feed for everything on experience, life, and sustainability.

A new lens, a new life

I definitely want to catch everyone up on what I’ve been up to over the last few months, but for now I want to talk about lenses.  Don’t worry, not eyeglasses, or the great work of the Scojo Foundation, but more life lenses.  It’s been awhile coming, but I’ve slowly started applying the (small d) design lens to everything I do: how to design a better solution? How was this experience designed? What does design mean to healthcare? How can I design a better life?

Once I came onboard at EchoUser, I finally gave myself license to use the “experience” lens, full time.

Whoah.

Everything, I find, is an experience. Catching the bus. Using my stove. Buying a movie ticket. Checking my email. Calling my bank. They say that when you’re a hammer everything’s a nail, and this case ain’t no diff’rnt, that’s for sure! Even the smallest interaction triggers a thought about experience design, such that I’m constantly thinking about it. Toilet paper holder too close to the loo? Experience design. Accidentally flip the high beams on while turning? Experience design.

Everything, it seems, is an experience, and I can’t wait to share mine. Word.