Hans Henrik Heming,

3 October 2005



Jacob Bøtter

Posted in Innovation

Looking at Tom Peter’s Experience Ladder, I think about what comes after this current wave of experience design, service design or what you’d like to call it. Having asked a bunch of people at INDEX: what they thought just got me even more confused. What do you think is the next step on the ladder?

For the record, the Experience Ladder is pretty simple and looks like this:

  • Experiences
  • Services
  • Goods
  • Raw materials

3 comments so far


It looks a lot like Maslow, just interpreted differently. So I’d say that the next step on the ladder should be “beliefs” or “values” as in “principles” or “truths”. Something connected to that. It is the logical next step after experiences.

Niti Bhan October 3rd, 2005 at 6:27 am

nothing comes next.

experience (ERLEBNIS) has comes with two wonderful features:

1. it is hard - or almost impossible - to willingly repeat or create it.

2. experience is always hungry for the opposite

guess that’s enough to keep us going for a while…

jk October 3rd, 2005 at 10:21 pm

same thing, jk, “nothing” is “everything”… brush up on satori/nirvana

Niti Bhan October 4th, 2005 at 2:18 am

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