Post on 17-Dec-2015
usabilityUser ability
playabilityAbility to play
Is it about the design?
Or the needs and wants of the user/player?
Design User/player
a Peek at
design
form over function function over form
Alessi - Philippe Starck "Juicy Salif"
"Most architects want to dictate the design. The architectural features had to take a back seat," however, due to electrical and mechanical requirements of the behemoth supercomputers.
Jonathan Ive
user centred design
persona- profiling in games development
approaches
focus groups
low-fidelity prototyping
design walk through
user centred design
approaches
focus groups
low-fidelity prototyping
Focus Group Research: Premium Salad Dressing
Dodge Caliber (focus group UK)
Dodge Caliber (focus group US)
Lo-fi web prototyping
Paper Prototype - Usability Test
Low Fidelity Prototype - The EnviroScape
user generated content
Web 2.0?Web 2.0?
Jeremy Paxman (Newsnight) promotes User Generated Content
top 15 web 2.0 sites | february 2009
are we in control?Start of session = 13 students
"Web 2.0" in just under 5 minutes
Mike WeschAssistant Professor of Cultural AnthropologyKansas State University
ethnography
Anthropology
are we in control?
how do you deal with the input from users?
monitoring?censoring?
testing?moderation?copyright?
a system for content management?
What about freedom?