What can software product designers learn from game designers?
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What can software product designers learn from game designers?
“You have to teach the player in a natural way, that they need to avoid them by jumping over them,” says the game’s designer, the legendary Shigeru Miyamoto.
Brian Christian • The Alignment Problem
Playgrounds over Paths
Today's standard design wisdom focuses on the design of linear paths. Sometimes they may branch, but they're ultimately a sequential set of steps towards a desired outcome.
Within complex systems, these paths often lack the flexibility to adapt to emergent conditions - users acting outside the "designed boundaries".
Instead of... See more
Today's standard design wisdom focuses on the design of linear paths. Sometimes they may branch, but they're ultimately a sequential set of steps towards a desired outcome.
Within complex systems, these paths often lack the flexibility to adapt to emergent conditions - users acting outside the "designed boundaries".
Instead of... See more
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Part of what makes great games great, for example, is the way that they “shape” our play.
Brian Christian • The Alignment Problem
Superhuman is productivity software, but I'm really a gamer at heart — and I've built a framework for applying game design to business software.