Innovation in Experience Design Models for Digital Art and Cultural Heritage Inheritance

Abstract

The iterative upgrade of digital technology has provided a new carrier for the living inheritance of excellent traditional Chinese culture. Digital art, with its interactive, immersive, and co-creative characteristics, has become a core bridge connecting the cultural core and the public experience. Currently, digital cultural products generally suffer from pain points such as a disconnect between content and technology, superficial experience levels, and broken inheritance links, making it difficult to achieve deep transmission and living continuation of cultural values. This paper takes user experience as the core and precise anchoring of the cultural core as a premise, constructing a four-dimensional full-link experience design innovation model of "cognition-empathy-participation-co-creation." It clarifies the design goals, digital art application forms, and implementation strategies at each level, and completes practical verification using traditional mortise and tenon joinery as an example. This model breaks the limitations of one-way dissemination of traditional culture, opening up a complete closed loop from cultural cognition to inheritance and co-creation, providing theoretical reference and practical paths for experience design in cultural heritage inheritance in the digital age.