Thursday, April 2, 2009

Life as a Game

Two interesting talks a cousin turned me on to, on the theme of games. They both talk about games as examples of excellent user interface design. How when you play a computer game it teaches you how to play, and the challenge level increases as you learn it better.

You have clear goals, clear indicators of success or failure, and you are motivated to make progress. Microsoft Word needs to be more like Mario.

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