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What is Holistic Design? When design teams do holistic design in user experience (UX) design, they take a bird’s-eye view of users’ interactions in their world and the many interconnected factors in their contact with brands. Teams picture how a product/service fits—or might fit—into the wider consumer or user world
Learn how you can get more marketplace success with a holistic design approach. “Holistic design takes into account the person, the device, the moment, the ethnographic environment, the physical space as well as human behavior and psychology, i.e. thinking, attitudes, emotions, motivations, abilities, triggers etc., and aims to deliver an optimal experience. At times the entire experience (with a product or brand) is not limited to digital devices but is a mix of digital, real-world brick-and-mortar, and human-to-human interactions.” — Miklos Philips, Principal UX Designer at Toptal
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Structural architects developed holistic design as a way to do better than build for just one purpose (e.g., to house people). The idea was to examine views of human occupancy from all angles (e.g., energy consumption, mental health). Therefore, they could design buildings tailored to everything the people who used them needed.