User Experience (UX)

I joined a meeting called UX Social Hour. According to Wikipedia, User Experience (UX) is the way a person feels about using a product, system or service. User experience highlights the experiential, affective, meaningful and valuable aspects of human-computer interaction and product ownership, but it also includes a person’s perceptions of the practical aspects such as utility, ease of use and efficiency of the system. User experience is subjective in nature, because it is about an individual’s feelings and thoughts about the system. User experience is dynamic, because it changes over time as the circumstances change.


I know that mentioning about the definition was boring but I don't want to confuse with UX when I read the blog. Anyway, I met different people at the meeting. And I experienced some odd conversation.


First, a South Korean lady tried to guess my country and she said "You can be from Middle East but I can't say a specific country". She closed to answer, at least she didn't say, you can be from India:) I asked her whether she can distinguish Asian people or not. She told she usually can distinguish. She also told she could distinguish them not only looking at their face but also their body language. I also noticed her point before. I mean I distinguished Turkish people when I looked at their gesture and facial expression.


I met a Swedish guy. He is thirty something years old. He went to Turkey for visiting when he was young. He said he know a Turkish word and he added: "Merhaba". He also said laughingly he know another one but he didn't want to say. I asked him "Which one?" And I insisted him to say. Then he told it: It was a swear and it means "Fuck your mother." From what he told me, he learned the swear a Turkish friend of him who lives in US. By the way, I learnt that Swedish swears are not sexual words but religious words such as demon, hell and so on.


I asked him: As far as I am concerned, Sweden is very comfortable country and your people are happy in your country, so why did you come to US to live? He told he didn't want to be a regular citizen there. He said, he want to learn much money here.


I met an American guy in this meeting. He asked me "What is the rate of religions in Turkey" When I replayed he asked me another question? Are Kurdish population in Turkey Christian?


7/24/2012