Exploratory Game Design for New User Interfaces
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Josh Lee presented at the Game Design Conference about exploratory design for new user interfaces. He discussed designing games for inputs beyond traditional buttons and screens, including full body movement, sensors, virtual reality, and 3D printing. Some key principles included starting with simple mechanics, reducing cognitive load while players learn new interfaces, observing ergonomics and how the environment impacts play, and designing to both inspire other creators and show players new interactive possibilities.
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- 1. Exploratory Design for New User Interfaces Josh Lee, Floor Is Lava Game Design Conference, September 2012
- 2. Introduction ‣ Josh Lee ‣ Floor Is Lava ‣ Experience ‣ Sifteo ‣ Excite Truck
- 3. User interface ‣ UI = Input + Output
- 4. User interface ‣ UI = Input + Output + Context
- 5. Innovations in UI ‣ Then: Focus on outputs ‣ Now: Inputs ahoy!
- 6. Pop quiz ‣ Q: What are the most important games in Microsoft’s history?
- 7. Pop quiz ‣ Q: What are the most important games in Microsoft’s history? ‣ A: Minesweeper and Solitaire
- 9. Designing for new user interfaces ‣ Design to Discover ‣ Design to Teach ‣ Design for the Body ‣ Design for the Environment ‣ Design to Inspire
- 10. Design to discover ‣ Be humble ‣ Become an expert ‣ Make games. Lots of games!
- 11. Sketch all the ideas ‣ Get all your ideas on paper ‣ Flesh out details ‣ Figure out what doesn’t work
- 12. Focus on mechanics ‣ Bottom-up design ‣ Worry about the other stuff later ‣ Explore the unknown
- 13. Small is beautiful ‣ Simple mechanics lead to small games ‣ Look for the Minesweeper, not the Starcraft
- 14. Develop the interaction language ‣ Give names to gestures ‣ Simple vs. Compound gestures
- 15. The most important question ‣ “Would this game work better in another interface?”
- 16. The even more important question ‣ “Would this game even be possible in another interface?”
- 17. Design to teach ‣ Teaching ≠ tutorials ‣ Teaching = sharing discoveries ‣ Let the player explore ‣ Design each game as if it’s the first thing the user has ever seen in the interface
- 18. Keep it simple ‣ Simple gestures first ‣ Compound gestures later
- 19. Learning and difficulty curves ‣ Normally: steady upward movement
- 20. Learning and difficulty curves ‣ Unfamiliar UI introduces early spikes ‣ The interface is hard; your game doesn’t need to make it harder
- 21. Learning and difficulty curves ‣ Reduce cognitive load while players get over the hump ‣ Raise difficulty organically
- 22. Design for the body ‣ Then: minimal body movement ‣ Now: full body UIs
- 23. Design for the body ‣ A human is not just a brain with fingers
- 24. Watch for fatigue ‣ Physical fatigue ‣ Changing controller usage ‣ Eye strain
- 25. Playtest Playtest Playtest ‣ Observational vs. metrics, interviews ‣ Watch the player ‣ Face ‣ Hands ‣ Posture
- 26. Design for the environment ‣ There is no virtual world, there is only this world.
- 27. Awareness of space ‣ Where is the game being played? ‣ Who is playing? Who is observing? ‣ How does the site of play affect the activity of play?
- 28. Playtesting in the home ‣ More comfortable for the player ‣ Examine the sites of play ‣ Site of play affects ergonomics ‣ Inquire about when play happens ‣ Investigate the scene!
- 29. Wait a minute... ‣ Why are we doing all this again?
- 30. New UI: Sifteo
- 31. New UI: Second screens
- 32. New UI: Sphero ‣ Smartphone-controlled robot roller balls
- 33. New UI: VR goggles (again!)
- 34. New UI: Personal telemetry ‣ Fitbit, Fuelband, etc. ‣ Is that a bundle of sensors in your pocket, or are you just... oh. That’s a bundle of sensors in your pocket.
- 35. New UI: 3D printers
- 36. New UI: Emotiv ‣ OMG brain control
- 37. New UI: Makey Makey ‣ Turn any conductive surface into a controller
- 38. Design to inspire designers ‣ Lead, don’t follow ‣ Draw the map for other designers
- 39. Design to inspire players ‣ Show players new possibilities ‣ Explore new spaces with them
- 40. Thanks! ‣ Josh Lee ‣ http://floor.is/lava ‣ josh@floor.is
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