Transcript design

usability
User ability
playability
Ability to play
Is it about the design?
Or the needs and wants of
the user/player?
Design
User/player
a Peek at
design
Jonathan Ive
form over function
Alessi - Philippe Starck "Juicy Salif"
function over form
"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.
user centred design
approaches
focus groups
low-fidelity
prototyping
design walk
through
persona- profiling in games development
user centred design
approaches
Focus Group Research: Premium Salad Dressing
focus groups
Dodge Caliber (focus group UK)
Dodge Caliber (focus group US)
low-fidelity
prototyping
Lo-fi web prototyping
Paper Prototype - Usability Test
Low Fidelity Prototype - The EnviroScape
user generated content
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 Wesch
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Kansas State University
Anthropology
ethnography
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?