Nicholas A. MooreExperience Design

Spring 2010

The problem is simple re-create an expeirience in the digital realm thats as good if not better then the physical expierience.

The Problem

So what to re-create in the digital realm...This is a serious question. What is something that you could take and make a digital verison of that will work the same and allow for the same inter-actions as its real world counter part?Also it should be something I know about and have an interest in. Hmmmmm...

The phone ringsHey Corey whats up?Not to much...heading up to the duck.Oh yeah its tuesday. Its not just any tuesday its the regional tourny and I’m gonna win it damnit! Well good luck with that, call me later we’ll play some duty.You got it man see yaHang up the phone

Hmm...so what to do for experience design...OH! POKER!

The Solution

Research

Effectivve research is sometimes best done when you know nothing about your subject, that makes everything an important fact, when you have pervious knowledge of a subject you tend to over look the basics because to you there common sense, so let make sure to document everything!

Reseach Check List

Online Poker Sites Full Tilt Poker StarsSocial research Teach someone to play poker Ask people how they playLive Research Watch pros play Watch amatuers play

Full Tilt Poker

Poker Stars

Teaching

Teaching someone how to do something is al-ways a good way to refresh your knowledge because it forces you to go back to the basics of that task. So for research I taught a friend of mine thats never played poker how to play. While teaching I was forced to go over all the basic steps and rules that I would normally over look talking to or playing with somone that does play poker. Which ended up helping a lot with making sure that I thought through all the simple steps that I would have over looked such as, hav-ing a game stats box to log information about the game.t

Listening

While talking with other people that play poker mostly friends of mine that I’ve played with be-fore, I got help picking up on what they thought would make something like this work well. Al-though the first concern from most of them was durability. After they understood I was more worried about usabliity I got some good feed-back. Being able to see and hear everyone clear-ly and without glitched was a main concern. The size of the screen was also important And the idea of a heads up display actually came from talking with others about the idea of this system.

Solution - Round 1

With the first atempt at a solution I focused main-ly heavily on how you would go about seeing the other players and not enough on the game play and the interactions that keep the game moving such as betting, and turns. There were a lot of things that fell to the way side because of my lack of research at this point in time.

Solution - Round 1

Because of my lack of research and planning my first solution had a lot of problems and a lot of un answered questions, all things that I worked hard to make sure I answered in the second ver-sion of my solution, fully thinking through the hand, thinking through the interactions and how to integrate the touch aspect.

Solution - Round 2

For the second shot at my solution I had done more research and focused on make sure this could actually work and be usable. So while working on this solution I made screens for and entire hand to make sure I thought through all the interactions in the game. The betting was changed to a slider similar to that of iphone and I also incorporated flicking motions, and tapping for certain things.

Solution - Round 2

With the final solution you can follow through how a whole hand would work. And I work hard to answer all the remaining question about how the solution would work although there are still some short comings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOdskNFexlI

Conclusion

All in all this class was really good at forcing me think through a process, and I think is shows when you compare my first and second solu-tions. The first one I admittadly threw together extremely quickly and with out really thinking it through. The second one I started over com-pletely from the beganing and re did everything. I did more research and it reflected in my final solution.

Video link for final solution:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOdskNFexlI

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