1. The document discusses closure experiences and how our relationship with closure has changed over time. It defines closure as the satisfactory conclusion to a product or service relationship where both parties feel satisfied.
2. It explains how closure has changed across generations with more deaths occurring in hospitals and nursing homes now. In the digital world, closure is less clear as digital services may retain user data indefinitely.
3. The lack of clear closure in the digital world is presented as an underlying issue, with examples given of different types of digital waste left behind like unwanted online content or outdated files. Various tools and models for understanding closure experiences better are proposed.
2. 1. De鍖ne what closure experience is
2. Show how its changed over generations
3. How its effected the design industry
4. What it means to digital industry
5. What we can do to change it
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What
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awareness consideration selection / sign up 鍖rst time use continued use renewal / repair
Customer lifecycle
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6. The satisfactory conclusion to a
product or service relationship. Each
party feeling satis鍖ed with the
completed transaction,it being a fair,
just conclusion without consequence.
Closure
9. new death
32 % of deaths occur in hospitals
20% occur in nursing homes
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
General public dont
experience death
medical professionals do
12. services
Age Concern
average 11 employers in our life time
1 in 4 of these pots goes missing
through lack of contact
Department for Work and Pensions
17. WEEE DIRECTIVE
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive
Became European law in 2003
Set collection, recycling and recovery targets
for all types of electrical goods
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18. RESPONSIBILITY? - PRODUCT WASTE
product
created
product
marketed
product sold product
owned
product
disposal
Producer Re-Seller /
Distributor
Re-Seller /
Producer /
Distributor
Product Design/
Digital design
Advertising /
marketing
Customer
Responsible
Have responsibilities under
the Waste Electrical
and Electronic Equipment
(WEEE) Regulations.
Burdened with old products
Through ownership the customer is
burdened with product or service. And
through public guilt, they often take
community responsibility to dispose of
waste.
Projects end, clients leave
no legal responsibility
no public guilt
no physical burden to deal with
Not Responsible
Have no responsibilities to
encourage or take action for
correct disposal
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WASTE
IN DIGITAL
Unwanted evidence of ourselves
online (photos, videos, etc)
Bit Rot - out dated computer
applications and their offspring
鍖les
Forgotten digital services that
retain your user ID
Vint Cerf, the Vice President at Google
Professor Mayer-Sch旦nberger, in his book Delete
1.
2.
3.
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WASTE
IN DIGITAL
Unwanted evidence of ourselves
online (photos, videos, etc)
Bit Rot - out dated computer
applications and their offspring
鍖les
Forgotten digital services that
retain your user ID
Vint Cerf, the Vice President at Google
Professor Mayer-Sch旦nberger, in his book Delete
1.
2.
3.
INDUSTRY:
DIGITAL
!
INTENTION:
EMPOWER PEOPLE,
COMMUNICATION, PRODUCTIVE
!
BY PRODUCT:
?!
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE:
?!
RESULTING LEGISLATION /
CHANGES / ACTIONS:
?
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awareness consideration selection / sign up 鍖rst time use continued use renewal / repair closure
Customer lifecycle
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awareness consideration selection / sign up 鍖rst time use continued use renewal / repair closure
Customer lifecycle
transaction models closure models
post service personas
1. 2.
3.
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The transaction type establishes the relationship for the rest of the
service delivery and therefore characterizes the closure experience.
1.Transaction Models
Payment after
delivery
Payment before
delivery
Scheduled
payment
Synchronous
restaurants, plumbers,
hairdressers, taxis
鍖ights, trains, music concert gym membership, car
insurance, utility payments
digitised services, pay-as-you-
go, commissioned services
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Time-out Credit-out Task / event
completion
Withdrawal Inactivity /
dormancy
2.Closure Models
There are 5 types of closure experience
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looking forward from the current to the future
Rose tinted glases
Target market data
Known/current customer data
Post Service Personas
Based on departed customers
Unsatis鍖ed customers with real experiences
Real areas of improvement
Current Personas
3.Post Service Personas
fantasy reality
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35. What closure experience is
How its changed over generations
How its effected the design industry
What it means to digital industry
Tools and techniques to deal with it
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recap
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36. Whole customer lifecycle over on-boarding customers
Long term security over short term novelty
Broad de鍖nition of waste over narrow physical de鍖nition
Vigilant to physiological impact of digital over the endless bene鍖ts
Individual data ownership over service providers database
Educating clients over codependent denial
CLOSURE MANIFESTO
www.closureexperiences.com
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