{"id":540,"date":"2007-10-27T18:10:55","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T16:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/27\/beyond-useful-outline-of-my-interaction-08-talk\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T10:25:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:25:03","slug":"beyond-useful-outline-of-my-interaction-08-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/27\/beyond-useful-outline-of-my-interaction-08-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"More than useful — outline of my Interaction 08 talk"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A while back I was happy to hear that my submission for Interaction 08<\/a> is accepted. This will be the first conference organised by the IxDA<\/a>. Obviously I’m proud to be part of that. I’ll probably be building my talk a post at a time on this blog, more or less like I did with the one for the Euro IA Summit of this year<\/a>. If you’re wondering wether it’ll be worth following along, let me outline the argument I made in my submission:<\/p>\n

There’s a generation of ‘users’ expecting their digital and physical products to be customizable, personalize-able and re-combinable. These users explore the potential of these 3C products<\/a> through play. This is why I think it’s worthwhile for interaction designer to get a better understanding of how to design for open-ended play<\/strong>. Obviously, it makes sense to do some<\/a> shopping<\/a> around in the theories of our colleagues in game design. Why should designers bother? Playful products have deeply engaged users that can’t stop telling stories about their experiences with them. <\/p>\n

The focus of this talk is firmly on designing stories that emerge through play<\/a> and enabling the retelling of those play experiences.<\/p>\n

Like I said, I’ll dive deeper into these topics in the coming period. If you have any views of your own on this — or useful resources that you think I should check out — do let me know.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> Today the full conference program was announced and my name is actually on there. The program looks really cool, and I’m really happy to see some<\/a> talks<\/a> related to mine in there as well. See you in Savannah<\/a>!<\/ins><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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