xBlog: The visual thinking weblog
27th February 2006

Classifying Experiences

“From ‘user experiences’ to ‘The Experience Economy’ to ‘designing for experiences,’ not to mention ‘brand experiences,’ ‘customer experience management,’ and ‘experiential marketing’ — experiences are definitely the topic du jour. But with so many different perspectives, each with substantial merit, I found myself asking what creates a great experience? ….Intent on resolving these various perspectives, I began exploring how it is that these different elements work together to complement each other. The resulting framework structures all the elements that contribute to a good (or bad!) experience, and provides a context for the various activities (both internal and external to an organization) that play a role in defining a person‚Äôs perception of a product or service.” (Thanks NIXON*NOW!)

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27th February 2006

How Sub-Pixel Font Rendering Works

“A single picture element (a ‘pixel’) of an LCD screen is actually composed of three ’sub-pixels’: one red, one green, and one blue (R-G-B). Taken together this sub-pixel triplet makes up what we’ve traditionally thought of as a single pixel… So: This means that if we were to treat the actual sub-pixels individually — ignoring their differing colors for the moment — we would have three times the horizontal resolution from our existing LCD display panels!”

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