The document discusses Mandy Mandelstein's interest in designing future storytelling mediums that incorporate technology. It describes how she realized user experience design principles from human-computer interaction could be applied, with the user being the viewer of a storytelling medium. The document also briefly outlines how storytelling mediums have changed over time, from filmmaking making stories less interactive than previous mediums like radio, to people now consuming stories in new places with new technologies. It quotes Janet H. Murray saying all successful storytelling mediums eventually become transparent, where the medium fades away and only the story itself remains.

1. Mandy Mandelstein
UX of Story:
Designing the Future
of Storytelling
Mandy Mandelstein

2. Mandy Mandelstein
Experience Design, Development,
and Production Studio

3. Mandy Mandelstein
Future Storytelling
Mediums

7. Mandy Mandelstein
Humans
+
Technology

14. Mandy Mandelstein
WTF is User
Experience Design?

20. Filmmaking
=
User Experience Design

22. Around that time I knew that devices and computers would be involved in whatever this magical experiential storytelling technology would be. It turned out that designing for Human Computer Interaction had a rich history of it’s own that had been developing for decades. There were trends towards designing computing systems to work for the human using them, and less about simply
operating the machine.
This got me thinking, maybe if I wanted to figure out this whole technology story thing, I’d needed to look at how the mediums in which we shared fictional narratives had already changed over time. Human Centered design principles often used in UX, stem around the fact that all design decisions should be based on the users experience of the product, which in my case the user was a
viewer and my product was some unknown future storytelling medium.

30. Filmmaking Made
Storytelling Less Interactive

33. Radio/Broadcast
Radio/Broadcast

37. People are Consuming
in New Places

53. “Eventually all successful storytelling
mediums become transparent: we
loose consciousness of the medium
and see neither print nor film but only
the power of story itself”
-Janet H. Murray, “Hamlet on the Holodeck”

54. mandy@luxloop.com
luxloop
@mandivision