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Human Experience Architecture™

Human Experience Architecture vs Experience Design

Human Experience Architecture is not another name for UX, human experience design, neuroarchitecture, workplace design or environmental psychology.

Different object of study

Experience design primarily shapes products, services, interfaces or environments. HEA models the adaptive human architecture through which those conditions become perception, meaning, regulation and behavior.

Different authority

A designer can change an external condition. HEA does not claim that this determines the internal human outcome. It examines how environmental signals interact with regulation, identity, motivation, interpretation, patterning and feedback.

Where they can meet

Experience design, neuroarchitecture and environmental psychology can become applied environments for HEA. Their findings may inform environmental coupling, but they do not replace the foundational cybernetic architecture.

Disambiguation

Human Experience Architecture (HEA) is a cybernetic architecture of human adaptive experience created by Erik Bakker. It is distinct from the generic field sometimes called human experience design or HX design.