The document discusses Frank Lloyd Wright's approach to design and how it can provide inspiration for user experience design. It explores how Wright considered the context of the site and client needs, understood what clients really wanted rather than just what they requested, and strived to connect the lives of clients to the design. The presentation examines these aspects through Wright's integration of indoor and outdoor spaces, emphasis on understanding the client, and goal of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.

1. Destroying the box
Experience design inspiration from Frank Lloyd Wright
Midwest UX ’11
Joe Sokohl
@mojoguzzi
@RegJoeConsults
#FLWux
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2. Three Sites
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3. Three Sites
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5. My Inspiration
“The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and
walls but in the space within which to be lived in”
Lao Tse
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6. Three Points
Context
How does the site selection integrate with user needs
and desires?
Clients
What do Wright's relationships with his clients teach
us? Where did he innovate, and where did he fail?
Connection
How does the architect connect the lives of the
clients with the results of the design?
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7. Context
Destroying the box brings the outside in and the inside out
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18. Clients
Understand what clients really want and really need, not just what they
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25. Connection
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
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39. “ The more simple the conditions
become, the more careful you
must be in the working out of
your combinations in order that
comfort and utility may go hand
in hand with beauty as they
inevitably should.
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40. Many thanks
Joe Sokohl
Joe@RegularJoeConsulting.com
1.804.873.6964
@mojoguzzi @RegJoeConsults #FLWux
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41. Fallingwater Rising: Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most
Extraordinary House, by Franklin Toker
Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life, by Ada Louie Huxtable
The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship,
by Roger Friedland
Wright-sized Houses: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Solutions for Making Small Houses Feel
Big, by Diane Maddex
Frank Lloyd Wright: A Film By Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
The Women, by T.C. Boyle (a novel)
Loving Frank: A Novel, by Nancy Horan
www.fallingwater.org (Fallingwater)
franklloydwright.org (The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation)
popeleighey1940.org (The Pope-Leighy House)
Many thanks
Joe Sokohl
Joe@RegularJoeConsulting.com
1.804.873.6964
@mojoguzzi @RegJoeConsults #FLWux
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