Posts Tagged ‘customization’

Slides and Summary for ‘More Than Useful’

In Talks on 23 June 2008 tagged adaptation, conferences, customization, events, FBTB 2008, From Business to Buttons 2008, game design, GD, interaction design, IxD, personalization, play, presentations, slides with 4 comments

Update: The video and slides are now available on the conference site. The conference From Business to Buttons 2008 aimed to bring together the worlds of business and interaction design. I was there to share my thoughts on the applicability of game design concepts to interaction design. You’ll find my slides and a summary of [...]

Adaptive Design and Transformative Play

In Articles on 31 January 2008 tagged adaptation, adaptive design, creativity, customization, game design, games, gaming, GD, generation c, interaction design, IxD, literacy, play, transformative play with 1 comment

Allowing people to change parts of your product is playful. It has also always ‘just’ seemed like a good thing to do to me. You see this with with people who become passionate about a thing they use often: They want to take it apart, see how it works, put it back together again, maybe [...]

My GDC Mobile 2008 Proposal: Accepted!

In Articles on 29 November 2007 tagged casual, conferences, connectedness, customization, game design, Game Developers Conference 2008, GDC 2008, GDC Mobile 2008, generation c, meta-games, mobile, personalization, playyoo, presentations, recombination, short-session, social, Talks with 3 comments

It doesn’t say so on the site yet, but I am on the program for next year’s GDC Mobile.1 Yesterday I got the email that my talk — titled Designing a Casual Social Gaming Experience for Generation C — has been accepted. To be honest I was quite surprised. I work in the blurry overlap [...]