You’re the actor for this game! Your job is to complete an assigned activity as best you can, acting out the random characteristics listed below. As you act, play up your condition. Use words and body language that communicates your character. Have fun with it. If your condition makes it hard for you to complete the activity, exaggerate your difficulties.
After you complete the activity, the designers will ask you a few questions about your experience. Stay in character as you answer. Share your feelings. Highlight what was easy for you to do and what wasn’t.
This is the setting where the experience design scene takes place.
The actor should pretend they are in this setting as they act out the scene. Think about how the conditions will impact your experience.
The dimensions of physical spaces where experience design scenes take place.
People and objects in a context that are not the user.
Materials available for use in a setting.
Stimuli in a context that can be perceived with the senses.
Exchanges between actors in experience design scenes.
Power or influence relationships between aspects in a context.
Unwritten "rules" that define acceptable behavior.
A little about the character you are playing.
These are randomly generated, so some aspects may contradict one another. Ignore the aspects that don't make sense.
A person's race based on physical appearance.
A person's sense of their own gender.
These are randomly generated, so some aspects may contradict one another. Ignore the aspects that don't make sense.
Emotional and/or romantic attraction to another person.
Ways people are connected to others.
A classification based on a person's social and economic status.
Facts, information, and skills a person has acquired.
Do not show the content below to designers. These details are only for the actor.
Water is fine if you like.
Random aspects served up to create a persona's behavior.
Caution: these are randomly generated, so some aspects may contradict one another. Ignore the aspects that don't make sense.
People's behavioral tendencies.
How your character is Dealing with this Activity
A way of thinking or feeling about an activity or design object.
What a person believes others will think of them when they perform a behavior.
How your Character Makes Meaning
The bank of words and gestures a person knows and uses.
Fundamental beliefs about what is desirable and ideal.
People's collected beliefs about themselves.
How a person conceives the overall "tone" of the world.
References and sources that support the inclusion of this Aspects of Experiences for Design component.
