I just finished reading Thomas Malone’s 1982 paper “Heuristics for Designing Enjoyable User Interfaces: Lessons from Computer Games.” At just 6 pages, it’s a mere rowboat floating on the sea of my semester’s reading; but I found it exceedingly interesting and helpful. I’ll summarize just a few of his main points, and then include an [...]
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Enjoyable User Interface Heuristics
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged design, interface on March 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Inspiration via…Comcast?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged design, interface on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last weekend I watched an episode of ‘Lipstick Jungle’ with my mom, and found it strangely satisfying – which seemed somewhat shameful as I neither wear lipstick nor stalk urban jungles. I felt similarly guilty yesterday as I finally created an account at comcast.com and fell in love with their account management interface. Comcast is [...]
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