"User experience (UX for short) is often reduced to mobile and desktop screens, which I find incredibly dull. User experience did not begin with screens. As Jakob Nielsen often says (is it still ok to quote him?), UX had primitive beginnings, such as the project at Bell Labs in the 1950s, where a team designed the push-button telephone keyboard."
"Screens are just one classroom. Sometimes we need to step outside that classroom: to breathe fresh air, run around, and learn about UX through other things. Art, fiction, or even moka pots - simple stuff around us can teach: Design (how to build the thing) and User experience (how to use the thing)"
"People don't experience products only through screens. They experience them through their bodies, context, and memory. Perfume, for example, is an amazing subject for studying human behavior. Goat hair, gunpowder, chocolate, blood Seventy-six - that's how many I have. I was also a co-organiser of the first perfume fair at Google's Warsaw office. Well, it's a questionable..."
User experience is often reduced to mobile and desktop screens, but its roots predate screens, reaching projects like the Bell Labs push-button telephone keyboard in the 1950s. Screens are one classroom; stepping outside to engage with art, fiction, or everyday objects like moka pots broadens understanding. Such objects teach both design — how to build things — and user experience — how to use them. People experience products through their bodies, context, and memory rather than through screens alone. Perfume serves as a powerful subject for studying human behavior, with notes from goat hair and gunpowder to chocolate and blood, and inspires events and strong personal collections.
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