Posts Tagged ‘playful’

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 [...]

Slides for My Oslo UXnet Meetup Talk

In Talks on 17 January 2008 tagged game design, games, gaming, GD, interaction design, IxD, Norway, Oslo, play, playful, presentations, slides, Talks, user experience, UX, UXnet with 1 comment

Last night I presented at the January UXnet meetup in Oslo. When Are invited me to come over I thought I’d be talking to maybe 60 user experience people. 200 showed up—talk about kicking off the year with a bang. I think the crew at Netlife Research may just have written UXnet history. I’m not [...]