Posts Tagged ‘mental models’

Spectra of Learnability

In Articles on 22 January 2008 tagged books, communication, conceptual models, Donald Norman, fun, game design, games, GD, interaction design, IxD, learnability, mental models, play, playful, toys, user experience, UX with 2 comments

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 [...]

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 [...]