“Play is the highest form of research.” —Albert Einstein1 That’s what I always say when I’m playing games, too. I really liked Bill Buxton‘s book Sketching User Experiences. I like it because Buxton defends design as a legitimate profession separate from other disciplines—such as engineering—while at the same time showing that designers (no matter how [...]
One of the nicer things about GDC was the huge stack of free magazines I took home with me. Among those was an issue of Edge, the glossy games magazine designed to look good on a coffee table next to the likes of Vogue (or whatever). I was briefly subscribed to Edge, but ended up [...]
They gave us Donald Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things1 to read in interaction design school. I remember reading it and—being young an cocky—finding it all very common sense and “Why do they ask us to read this stuff?” And so on.2 I am rereading it now, in the hopes of sharpening my argument for [...]
How do you create a corporate environment in which people share knowledge out of free will?1 This is a question my good friends of Wemind2 are working to answer for their clients on a daily basis.3 We’ve recently decided to collaboratively develop methods useful for the design of a participatory context in the workplace. Our [...]
I thought I’d post a short summary of the argument I made in my Euro IA Summit 2007 talk, for those who weren’t there and/or are too lazy to actually go through the notes in the slides. The presentation is basically broken up into three parts: Future web environments are becoming so complex, they start [...]
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 [...]
A while ago there was a discussion on the IAI members list about game mechanics on web sites. Andrew Hinton pointed to the Google Image Labeler and LinkedIn‘s ‘profile completeness’ status bar and asked: “Can anyone else think of a use of a game mechanic like this to jump-start this kind of activity?” (Where “this [...]
Online I usually go by the nickname “kaeru”, which (to the best of my knowledge) is Japanese for “frog”. I know, it’s a long story… So today Floris pointed out that I have a namesake who travels around a bit. His vacation shots can be found here.
Found this via Chris Heathcote’s blog. Funny cartoon by a talented cartoonist who posts new ones regularly over at Flickr. Perhaps it’ll work like this one day?
Damn. Nerdiger dan Tom, maar lang niet zo nerdig als Edgar. 32 punten: “Not nerdy, but definitely not hip.” Hoe durven ze?!
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