Posts Tagged ‘social software’

Where Social Software Should Go Next — Habitat’s Lessons

In Articles on 21 April 2008 tagged control, creativity, evolution, game design, Habitat, interaction design, MMOGs, moderation, play, social software with no comments

MMOGs have not progressed since 1990. Neither has social software.

Well maybe a little, but not much. At least that’s what I’m lead to believe after reading another wonderful essay in The Game Design Reader—a book I like to dip into once in a while to read whatever catches my fancy.

In The Lessons of Lucasfilm’s Habitat1 [...]

Game Player Needs and Designing Architectures of Participation

In Articles on 22 November 2007 tagged fun, game design, games, interaction design, interactions, knowledge, motivations, needs, participation, play, sharing, social software with no comments

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 [...]

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 design I also [...]

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 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 [...]

Reboot 9.0 Day 2

In Articles on 3 June 2007 tagged ambient intimacy, conferences, experience design, file sharing, flow, interaction design, mobile, music, notes, presence, Reboot 9, reports, RSS, social software with no comments

(Waiting for my train home to arrive, I finally have the opportunity to post this.)

So with Reboot 9.0 and the after-party done, I think I’ll briefly write up my impressions of the second day.

Stowe Boyd – Good talk as always, offering a new definition of ‘flow’. I guess his attempt to have people open themselves [...]

Social — Second of Five IA Summit 2007 Themes

In Articles on 23 April 2007 tagged Andrew Hinton, conferences, events, Gene Smith, IA, IA Summit 2007, information architecture, social, social software with 2 comments

(Here’s the second post on the 2007 IA Summit. You can find the first one that introduces the series and describes the first theme ‘tangible’ here.)

The recent web revival, that I will not name, pushed one trend to the forefront – social software. The most challenging aspect of designing social sites and applications is that [...]

Mobile Social Play — My Reboot 9.0 Proposal

In Articles on 30 March 2007 tagged elsewhere, gaming, mobile, play, presentations, proposals, Reboot 9, social software, Talks with 5 comments

I’ve just submitted my proposal for a talk at Reboot 9.0. It’s on the three areas I am most fascinated with at the moment: mobile, social software and gaming/play. After attending this great conference twice it’d be really cool to get the opportunity to present there.1

Take a look at it and let me know what [...]

Using Concept Models to Design for the Web of Data

In Articles on 9 February 2007 tagged Bryce Glass, concept models, Dan Brown, IA, information architecture, interaction design, IxD, social software, Tom Coates, web 2.0, web as network, web as platform, web of data with no comments

I’m lucky enough to be doing some concepting and interaction design work for a social web site. This presented me with the opportunity to integrate some stuff I found while reading on social software, and the web as platform/network. Here’s how I’ve been integrating some of it.

I was inspired by the concept model of the [...]

Surprises in Animal Crossing: Wild World

In Articles on 17 January 2007 tagged Animal Crossing: Wild World, DS Lite, games, gaming, Nintendo, play, social software, toys with 7 comments

So I’ve been playing AC: WW for over a weeks now and I must say it has lived up to my expectations. It’s a cute and quirky game that does not follow conventional game design rules. There is no way to die, no (real) way to loose or even win. In a sense it’s more [...]