As an Interaction Designer, I’m perpetually impressed with the continual design success inherent in most video games. We are taught [...]
Engaging the User: What We Can Learn from Games
August 2009
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UX Australia ’09 report: Day 2
Canberra was again host to power hungry … laptops with day two of UXAustralia. The final day of the conference [...]
UX Australia ’09 report: Day 1
Set at the modern Hotel Realm in Australia’s capital city, UX Australia kicked off with nearly 180 UX professionals ranging [...]
UX Australia ‘09 report: Alex Wright Keynote
“We work in a young field and don’t have a sense of lineage … But we have one”. Keynote speaker [...]
Incentives are for Games & Interests for Social Media
Incentives are a commonplace to game designers and developers. They are a means of designing activity to support goals and [...]
Applying Curiosity to Interaction Design: Tell Me Something I Don't Know
Curious?
How to combine multiple research methods: Practical Triangulation
All research methods have their pros and cons, the problem comes when you rely on just one method. I’m often [...]
Mac’s petit inventions: 3D Interfaces
When I first played Star Fox 64 I was extremely excited to see the polygons move smoothly over the screen. [...]
The iPhone is not easy to use: a new direction for UX Design
Playfulness over usability.
User Stories: a strategic design tool
Collaboratively developing a User Experience Strategy