Experience design and brand design are identical twins. Experience design starts from service or product design and therefore from the service or the product as the customer wants to experience it. Brand design starts from the values you want to deliver with your service or product.
Experience design, the service as experienced by your customer
Experience design covers many loads, it can be the user interface of a webshop: the visual presentation of products and the order function. But it can also be a written scenario, which clarifies how the receptionist must connect customers with the customer service or the account manager.With experience design you determine how the customer experiences your service and therefore your brand. It is the translation of the desired service in a developed service experience.Each hotel cleans the bathroom before a new visitor comes. But the hotel where the corner of the toilet paper is folded also tells the visitor that the bed has been changed and the bathroom cleaned, with care.
Brand design, the values you stand for
Brand design translates the values that you want to convey as a brand, in visual applications such as logo, website, … but also in other interactions with customers. A good example of how brand identity is a translation of values is found in the Apple logo. The original was little thought out, and so was the name. It was motivated by a fruit diet that Steve Jobs followed at the time.
