Your experiences shape your worldview. Producing an experience for others might shape theirs. 

Seeing what you produce as an experience acknowledges the presence and agency of those who encounter your work. In other words, thinking of what you make as an experience can help root the idea that your work has an impact. Experience as a lens considers that your work has the ability to transform (a user, participant, audience, viewer, a public). 

Interactivity is one way of making something explicitly experiential, but through the framing of experience design, all art (and design…) is temporal and embodied. 
When creating with “experience” in mind, it can be helpful to remember that while you may have an open-ended system with many possibilities for how one “might” encounter it, returning to “experience” – how one person might experience your work from start to finish – can help you understand and shape what its impact might be.

//Guiding Questions

• What’s the relationship between “having an experience” and “having experience”?

//Resources