Posts Tagged ‘emergence’

Playful IAs — Slides for My Euro IA Summit 2007 Talk

In Talks on 25 September 2007 tagged algorithmic architectures, emergence, Euro IA Summit 2007, flow, fun, game design, game mechanics, GD, IA, information architecture, kicking ass, MMOs, MUDs, play, possibility space, presentations, rewards, slides, social software, user experience, UX, Wii, Will Wright with 19 comments

After a considerable amount of fiddling with SlideShare I’ve finally managed to upload a version of the slides that go with my Playful IAs presentation. This more or less as I presented it at the Euro IA Summit 2007 and includes an approximate transcript of my talk. I hope to get an audio/video recording of [...]

The Experience of Playful IAs

In Articles on 9 August 2007 tagged Brian Sutton-Smith, emergence, feedback, game design, GD, IA, information architecture, learning, patterns, perception, play, Rules of Play, user experience, UX with 2 comments

It’s time for a short update on my thinking about Playful IAs (the topic of my Euro IA Summit talk). One of the under-served aspects so far is the actual user experience of an architecture that is playful. Brian Sutton-Smith describes a model describing the ways in which games are experienced in his book Toys [...]

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 [...]