OVERVIEW

Little is known about North Korean user experience (UX). The advancement of information technology in North Korea is remarkable, and the spread of IT in North Koreans’ everyday lives exceeds our expectations. Considering that UX develops concurrently with IT, we can assume that UX design exists in the North Korean IT industry. This study explores three problems: What are the political UX factors inherent in North Korean IT products considering their highly ideology-oriented culture? How does North Korea cope with global UX design trends? What are the similarities and differences in UX between South and North Korea, which share the same historical and lingual roots yet have sociocultural gaps after more than 70 years of division? As part of my on-going research to build foundational knowledge about the North Korean industrial design and IT sectors, this study aims to grasp the current status and characteristics of North Korean UX design.

概述

对朝鲜用户体验 (UX) 知之甚少。朝鲜的信息技术进步显着，信息技术在朝鲜人日常生活中的普及超出了我们的预期。考虑到 UX 与 IT 同步发展，我们可以假设朝鲜 IT 行业存在 UX 设计。本研究探讨了三个问题： 考虑到朝鲜高度意识形态导向的文化，朝鲜 IT 产品中固有的政治用户体验因素是什么？朝鲜如何应对全球用户体验设计趋势？韩国和朝鲜有着相同的历史和语言渊源，但在经过 70 多年的分裂后却存在社会文化差异，这两者在用户体验方面有何异同？作为我正在进行的研究的一部分，以建立有关朝鲜工业设计和 IT 部门的基础知识，