Posts Tagged ‘social media’

Work With Me in Copenhagen (or Where-Ever)

In Articles on 16 October 2007 tagged Copenhagen, Denmark, freelance, game design, games, GD, interaction design, IxD, Leapfrog, lecturing, living, mobile, play, social, social media, social software, speaking, updates, user experience, UX, work with 1 comment

Now that I’m over three months into my stay in Copenhagen I thought it would be good to post a short update. Here are the facts, bullet-wise (with apologies to Mr. Tufte): I have been in Copenhagen, Denmark since July 1st 2007 Until now I have mostly been working on Playyoo, doing interaction and game [...]

The Toy-Like Nature of Social Media

In Articles on 4 September 2007 tagged game design, games, GD, interaction design, IxD, play, social, social media, social software, toys with 2 comments

I’ve been meaning to write about this for quite a while: I think a lot of social media are like toys. I think what we see with people (adults!) using them is a lot like the open-ended play we know from playground games in school. A lot of these games are about exploring (the possibilities [...]