{"id":70,"date":"2008-01-04T15:11:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T22:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=70"},"modified":"2008-01-04T15:11:13","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T22:11:13","slug":"what-is-meant-by-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"What is meant by &#8220;product&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In CMU-speak, a <em>product<\/em> can be a lot of things. It has a very broad, liberal interpretation, referring to anything artificial, material or immaterial, resulting from deliberative human effort and planning, not just a piece of hardware or physical gadgetry for sale.<\/p>\n<p>A product thus, in <em>this <\/em>sense, can be any of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A map<\/li>\n<li>A poster<\/li>\n<li>A physical object<\/li>\n<li>A website<\/li>\n<li>A software application<\/li>\n<li>A network device<\/li>\n<li>An electronic gadget<\/li>\n<li>A user interface<\/li>\n<li>A complex system<\/li>\n<li>A web-delivered service<\/li>\n<li>A business process<\/li>\n<li>An environment<\/li>\n<li>An organization<\/li>\n<li>A course syllabus, even!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When you look at the possible range of what could be a &#8220;product&#8221;, you can see there&#8217;s an extraordinary range of possible arguments and forms of rhetorical communication, as well as methods of thinking to solve their inherent problems. Each of these product types is a potential argument requiring different ways of handling them and presenting them to people. It should also be apparent that each one of these product types embodies a flavor of interaction design thinking, how people engage with the product and leverage it given a particular context or purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Again, there is nothing inherently digital or web-based about product design, or interaction design. Once you&#8217;re able to accept this and start from this place as your baseline, it frees up your abilities and approaches as a designer, imho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In CMU-speak, a product can be a lot of things. It has a very broad, liberal interpretation, referring to anything artificial, material or immaterial, resulting from deliberative human effort and planning, not just a piece of hardware or physical gadgetry for sale. A product thus, in this sense, can be any of the following: A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=70\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is meant by &#8220;product&#8221;?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff","category-theoretical-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}