The patterns of how these sense, the information we need to understand and operate smoothly, and what we expect to do, all change depending on whether we’re having a conversation at a party, jogging down a path, driving a car, or reading a text come together are called modalities.
Understanding these combinations is essential to designing the next generation of user experiences, like VR, Voice, and sensor-based IoT experiences well.
It can also address some of the ways in which digital experiences have become detrimental to our real world lives.
But it also can improve the way we design experiences for all of the different kinds of products and media being created now.
If something is experienced in several senses it’s judged to be more real, we are more certain about it, and the experience or information is more memorable.
Second, having multiple sensory options is important because one sense might not be working for someone, either temporarily or permanently.