Posts Tagged ‘Ben Cerveny’

Space to Play

In Articles on 4 February 2008 tagged activities, Ben Cerveny, Donald Norman, emergence, game design, games, gaming, interaction design, languages, learning, movement, play, thinking with 2 comments

The languages you’ve mastered shape your thinking. Nouns, verbs, adjectives…if you think of your day-to-day interactions on the web it’s clear the language you’re using is (very) limited. Does that limit your range of thoughts, and the things you’re able to express? Certainly, I’d say.

A quote from an old Ben Cerveny bio found in the [...]

Mirroring Mental Models — Games Modelling Players

In Articles on 20 August 2007 tagged Ben Cerveny, Euro IA Summit 2007, game design, games, GD, IA, information architecture, interaction design, IxD, mental models, models, play, presentations, recommendations, Spore, user experience, UX, Will Wright with 3 comments

Today I sent in the slides of my Euro IA Summit presentation for the proceedings. The rough outline of my talk is done, the most important thing now is to find the proper examples to illustrate all the fuzzy theoretical thinking. That means (at least for me) doing a lot of Flickr photo searches. This [...]