The (Digital) Place You Love Is Gone: Loss in Space

edUi Conference 2012

Joe Sokohl

@mojoguzzi

MelissaHolbrookPierson.com

PervasiveIA.com/book

“Space is not geometry”“...[H]elp users reduce disorientation, build a sense of place, and increase legibility and way-finding across digital, physical, and cross-channel environments

+ = Place

all the friends you can’t recall

do they really exist at all?

http://northforksound.blogspot.com/2010_09_01_archive.html

"Cognitive maps, formed by the brain upon first viewing a place, really don't like to be changed"

I went back to Ohio But my city was gone There was no train station There was no downtown South Howard had disappeared All my favorite places My city had been pulled down Reduced to parking spaces A, o, way to go Ohio

Well I went back to Ohio But my family was gone I stood on the back porch There was nobody home I was stunned and amazed My childhood memories Slowly swirled past Like the wind through the trees A, o, oh way to go Ohio

I went back to Ohio But my pretty countryside Had been paved down the middle By a government that had no pride The farms of Ohio Had been replaced by shopping malls And Muzak filled the air From Seneca to Cuyahoga falls Said, a, o, oh way to go Ohio

http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnpaultitlow/451069459/sizes/z/in/photostream/

Warning, Will Robinson!Danger!

Salty language follows!

suburbanification of experience

http://www.mobilebloom.com/

http://forevergeek.com/

I coulda told you that!

Realize the effects that design changes have on users

Avoid unintended design disjunct

Understand how loss affects people

Know that we all will wanna go home, go back in time

Joe SokohlJoe@RegularJoeConsulting.com1.804.873.6964@mojoguzzi

Many thanks!