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The Three Threads of Experience

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Our everyday experience can resemble a ball of yarn composed of multiple intertwining threads. Experience exists, but it is hard to conceptualize it in a way that is easy to grasp easily, and it is even more difficult to divide the concept into certain elements. However, in order to design better products or services that can provide a really great experience for users, it will be useful to identify the major elements, or ‘threads’, of the experience. What are the important threads that make up our experience? What are the characteristics of each? What dimensions are important in explaining the threads?

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Kim, J. (2015). The Three Threads of Experience. In: Design for Experience. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14304-0_2

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