Out-of-box experience

An Out-of-box Experience (OOBE) is the experience a user has right after a Software program is installed. This term is used by Microsoft for what people see right after installing a Microsoft Windows product. For people who have installed Windows XP, this experience was the initial setup featuring background music and a small helper agent, which appears as a small bouncing blue ball with a white edge, and a Question mark in the center.

Definitions

UsabilityFirst.com defines Out-of-box Experience as

the interactions and first impressions a user has with technology when first opening the box it comes in and installing it, as opposed to the point-of-sale experience or the interaction experience of an expert user.

See Also

• Windows XP
• Microsoft Windows

External Links

• IBM ease of Use - Out-of-box experience - guidelines and insights to help other software and hardware companies design out-of-box experiences
• UsabilityFirst.com's Definition