Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Designing Theatre, Designing User Experience (01 May 2005) A lot of theatre work happens during long hours of rehearsals. As though observing a usability test, the designers watch for the tiniest details of the interaction between their work and the rest of the play. The thousands of hours I’ve spent taking notes in a large, dark theatre while watching the action on stage do not differ much from the time I’ve spent carefully observing users at work. In both cases, applying your observations is the key to improving the design. “Did that scene take too long? Was the lighting too bright or too dark for the mood of the scene? Were there technical glitches?” You review mistakes and mismatches after rehearsal and consider new ideas before trying it all again. It’s iterative design at its best. Article URL: http://www.wqusability.com/articles/theatre-interactions.html Read 25 more articles from WQUsability sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Industrial Design: Claims Without Substance     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy