If the transition from human-computer design to UX marked the change from computers as separate from the “real world” to computers becoming an intrinsic part of our world, the metaverse describes the next stage in this evolutionary journey: computers as portals to new worlds entirely. And as technology shifts, so will the terminology we use to describe the person who interacts with said technology. So rather than design being focused on the user, design will instead reorient itself around the player — the person who occupies this virtual world (Benjamin Bertram Goldman)
