Howie is passionate in all things digital and have deep appreciation in good user experiences. He loves to engage in social slipstreaming and finds fulfillment in spending time with his loved ones. This is his tumblog, his collection of hypertext fragments. Get in touch. You can also find him on twitter and facebook.
Whitney Hess writes about designing the new Boxee interface.
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Interesting interview with Amy Jo Kim from Shufflebrain on the overlap between traditional web design/dev (specifically in web apps) and game mechanics.
(Among other things, like community, fundamental game mechanics, etc.)
I found this really, really interesting. Coming into game design from the web design/web app world it’s been pretty eye opening to see the relationships and how I’d been using game mechanics in my designs for years. Chances are if you’re designing web apps you’ve been doing that as well.
I’d even take it a step further and say that if you’ve been doing UI/UX/IA etc. work for web apps you’d probably do well to read up on game mechanics as it could help add some context to much of what you use to drive behavior. Much of it what you discover will be things you already know, or close to know, but the language and formal structure you’ll learn could really help you. I know it’s been helpful to me, and I think it’s made me a better overall designer.
With 97bottles.com, we designed in a bunch of game mechanics (many of which never made it into the app) but didn’t really consciously recognize them as game mechanics. Learning the language and beginning to consciously understand those mechanics has been really helpful in many ways.
As well, I think making the jump from web app designer to game designer is a do-able one and in many ways, especially when we’re talking about social web-based games, your skills are a great match and perfect place to start.
Very handy guide to describing User Experience Research in an intelligible way.
This video examines the benefits and limitations inherent in current mouse-based and window-oriented interfaces, the problems facing other potential solutions, and visualizes my proposal for a completely new way of interacting with desktop computers.
More information at 10gui.com.
There was also an active discussion about it on Hacker News:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=877535
User experience researcher Sasha Lubomirsky talks about his work at YouTube.
