Part 2 of a series on cross-channel experience design in preparation for the Rapid Cross-channel Prototyping at the ASIS&T IA Summit 2017 in Vancouver. New decks coming every week.

1. PART 2 - EXPERIENCES
CROSS-CHANNEL ECOSYSTEMS 101
Andrea @Resmini
December 29 2016

2. WHAT DO YOU MEAN, “AN EXPERIENCE”?
Think “paying my taxes”. Or “going to the movies”. Or again
“having the hamster vaccinated”. These are experiences
The way they happen, actors will go through them moving freely
between locations, devices, products, and services

3. SMS
BUS
KIOSK
HERE’S AN EXAMPLE: GOING TO THE MOVIES
GREEN LINE AND CIRCLES: AN ACTOR’S PATH DESCRIBING AN EXPERIENCE
IMDB
MOVIE

4. WAIT AGAIN, “ACTORS”?
Yes, actors. The people formerly known as the users.
A cross-channel ecosystem is an actor-driven construct,
both in terms of its structure and its content

5. SO AN “ACTOR” GOES THROUGH “AN EXPERIENCE”
Yes, and the systems of actors, tasks, touchpoints, seams,
and channels in which this experience takes place is the
cross-channel ecosystem
The actual path that an actor walks is one of the many
possible trajectories through that specific ecosystem

6. actors, agents within the ecosystem
youtube.com

7. all sorts of agents

8. actors pursue a future desired state
alphasys.com.au

9. tasks, any activity these agents perform

10. touchpoints, individual points
of interaction in a channel

11. seams, thresholds between touchpoints
and across channels

12. channels, pervasive ecosystem-level
information layers

13. and their relationships

14. ACTORS, TASKS, TOUCHPOINTS, SEAMS, AND CHANNELS?
These are the basic building blocks of any ecosystem
Their precise nature is specific to an ecosystem and is
defined pragmatically based on context and goals

15. PART 3 COMING JAN 5
“ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT, BUT WHAT ARE THEY?”
Andrea @Resmini