Tag Archives: play

Playing to inspire design

Matt Jones talks about play and design for mobile devices.
“What does this have to do with interaction design or mobile devices? Well, as I’ve said, in play we explore, try new things and push our limits more than in any other state. The practice of experience design often tries to prescribe set paths for the [...]

Design for fiddling

Paul Golding asks whether mobile phones are designed to support people desire to fiddle with them. This is an excellent question, and in most situations phones only provide poor support for this kind of use.
“However, on close inspection (i.e peeking) at what some people do with their phones, the fiddling is a kind of mindless [...]