{"id":510,"date":"2007-09-26T14:50:28","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T12:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/26\/summary-of-my-playful-ias-argument\/"},"modified":"2008-07-22T12:56:37","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T10:56:37","slug":"summary-of-my-playful-ias-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/26\/summary-of-my-playful-ias-argument\/","title":{"rendered":"Summary of my Playful IAs argument"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought I’d post a short summary of the argument I made in my Euro IA<\/abbr> Summit 2007 talk<\/a>, 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: <\/p>\n

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  1. Future web environments are becoming so complex, they start to show emergent properties. In this context a lot of traditional IA<\/abbr> practice doesn’t make sense anymore. Instead of directly designing an information space, you’re better off designing the rules that underly the generative construction of such spaces. In other words, IA<\/abbr> is becoming a second order design problem.<\/ins><\/li>\n
  2. IA<\/abbr>s tend to argue for the value of their designs based solely on how well they support users in achieving their end goals. I propose supporting experience goals is just as important. From there I try to make the case that any powerful experience is a playful one, where the user’s fun follows from the feeling that he or she is learning new stuff, is kicking ass, is in flow.<\/li>\n
  3. Game design is not black magic (anymore). In recent years a lot has become understood about how games work. They are built up out of game mechanics that each follow a pattern of action, simulation, feedback and modelling. Designing playful IA<\/abbr>s means taking care that you encourage discovery, support exploration and provide feedback on mastery.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Get the the slides, and a list of sources<\/a> for the talk in this earlier post.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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 … Continue reading Summary of my Playful IAs argument<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[625],"tags":[401,387,324,23,267,395,259,46,367,14,13,424,168,125,54,53],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-emergence","tag-euro-ia-summit-2007","tag-flow","tag-fun","tag-game-design","tag-game-mechanics","tag-games","tag-gaming","tag-gd","tag-ia","tag-information-architecture","tag-kicking-ass","tag-play","tag-presentations","tag-user-experience","tag-ux"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}