Posts Tagged ‘complexity’

Playing With Emergence Is Like Gardening

In Articles on 22 August 2008 tagged books, complexity, dog-eared pages, emergence, game design, games, gardening, GD, interaction design, IxD, learning, play, second order design, Steven Berlin Johnson with 1 comment

It’s been a while since I finished reading Steven Berlin Johnson’s Emergence. I picked up the book because ever since I started thinking about what IxDs can learn from game design, the concept of emergence kept popping up. Johnson’s book is a pleasant read, an easy-going introduction to the subject. I started and finished it [...]

Playing With Complexity — Slides and Notes for My NLGD Festival of Games Talk

In Talks on 9 July 2008 tagged aesthetics, Ben Fry, collective intelligence, complexity, data visualization, dataviz, emergence, exploration, Festival of Games 2008, frivolity, futures, game design, games, GD, happiness hacking, information design, information graphics, information visualization, infoviz, interaction design, IxD, Jane McGonigal, languages, ludic fallacy, NLGD, personal informatics, play, prediction, prescription, Stamen Design, supercontext, utility with 14 comments

When the NLGD Foundation invited me to speak at their anual Festival of Games I asked them what they would like me to discuss. “Anything you like,” was what they said, essentially. I decided to submit an abstract dealing with data visualization. I had been paying more and more attention to this field, but was [...]

Learning About Emergence From Games

In Articles on 1 August 2007 tagged complexity, design, emergence, experience, game design, games, gaming, GD, Go, IA, information architecture, interaction design, interactivity, IxD, play, pleasure, The Game of Life, user experience, UX with 7 comments

I’m still trying to get a grip on why I think games are such a good reference point for IAs and IxDs. I’ll try to take another stab at it in this post. Previously I wrote about how games might be a good way to ‘sell’ algorithmic architectures to your client. Even if you’re not [...]