Dave Harrelson and Alexa Andrzejewski are working on an iPhone application for the website Smart.Fm, a Japanese language learning website.
In a few posts, they are telling how they’re working on the project; last one is really interesting.
First of all they started with the right approach: thinking about the iPhone as a platform and working [...]
Now that’s interesting.
Foursquare is a geo-based social network, in which you can track your friends and invite them for a drink if they’re near and stuff like that.
But you can earn badges for different actions you make, for places you explore and so on. Dennis Crowley, the mind behind Foursquare, said to the New York [...]
First of all, let me apologize for having pretty much abandoned this place. I was out in San Francisco looking for new ideas, I played a game with Jane McGonigal, I met the guys of Playtime Antiboredom Society and all in all I had a great time. But, enough with personal statements.
I just discovered that [...]
Joe Lamantia summarizes his talk at the Italian IA summit.
He worked as a consultant for the website of the PS3 game Killzone 2. And he discovered how much games and social media have in common.
From the functional to the psychological, it seems there really is an ‘architecture of fun’ for both games and social experiences. [...]
This new article by Christina Wodtke on A List Apart gives a sneak peek into the second edition of Information Architecture: blueprints for the web.
I found it extremely interesting, and I started making parallels with the concepts of playful design. Take for example point 1, which comes straight from an architecture paper:
Conflict: Children love to [...]
Web applications can be considered as virtual spaces. There’s no need to be Second Life to be a virtual space. And I will drop the “virtual” adjective too, because I think there’s nothing virtual about the relations and the experiences happening on those spaces.
I think I will call them “experiential spaces” (or maybe “possibility spaces” [...]
Dopplr is a nice little internet service tracking your travels across the world.
And, of course, is a really good example of playful interaction. The site, though simple, uses a lot of entertaining and cool features: color codes defining the places you visit, stats like your carbon footprint and so on.
Recently they provide all the users [...]
