Gamification, or the addition of game-like elements to anything that isn’t a game, pops up all over the design world. In my last post for Boxes and Arrows, I focused specifically on gamification in mobile app onboarding. The moment when
Continue readingOne of our finest tasks as designers is to filter the abundance of choice into easily digestible bits. Creating great interfaces is as much about motivating, teasing, leading, and guiding users along—so that they experience value, faster—as it is to
Continue readingIt’s common in our field to hear that we don’t get enough time to regularly practice all the types of research available to us, and that’s often true, given tight project deadlines and limited resources. But one form of user
Continue readingA quote that I stumbled on during grad school stuck with me. From the story of the elder’s box as told by Eber Hampton, it sums up my philosophy of working and teaching: “How many sides do you see?” “One,”
Continue readingFrom the early Christians to the Eames, we’ve been telling stories in space. Now that media installations are becoming more prevalent, how do we use them to inspire and effect users? Second Story faced that challenge when they created an installation for the University
of Oregon.
