Andreas notified me of a great blog on the topic of experience design: Creating Passionate Users He also gave me a link to a great post by Kathy Sierra that I wanted to share. She translates the Rules of Play book rules into general rules for all kinds of applications: Typology of Cognitive Pleasures (in [...]
I like to watch series and to lose myself in the story. I have been watching many series, some were better than the others. But one stands out to me lately: Battlestar Galactica Battlestar Galactica is a scifi series with ships in space and it’s main theme is robots. But it is nowhere close to [...]
David Seah had some interesting posts in his blog. He talks about storytelling as a method for designing. What I gather from the posts is that he is really searching to get the feeling/emotion/message accross. It seems he want to use the story as the main tool for setting up the experience he wants to [...]
The secret ingredient that makes anything excel above it’s normal function. A term made famous by idols (Pop-idol/American idol) is the most important factor for the WOW experience. Something that has the X-factor has something mysterious inexplainable that makes it bigger than the sum of its parts. So the X-factor works holistically. But what do [...]
I have one passion: To experience the WOW! It is something uncontrollable. It is something unpredictable. It is best described as a mental orgasm. A state of mind that takes you over. I seek it and try to understand it. Try to control it. Try to find what triggers it. There are several things that [...]
My dads weblog is online. Designed by me and built upon wordpress. My father was already a regular visitor of blogs of others and now he has his own publishing platform. He should only have picked a better image of me for his first post…
Step by step Bumpy roads Easy roads Slow or speedy bits. Time goes by, what was tomorrow is already yesterday. What you where longing for is already normal. Seconds just fly by. Some are better than others. You get wiser on how to spend them …Euhm not always. Looking back you always regret what you [...]
Well this week I finally started my gratuation project. It is fun to see with what kind of project you end up with after the years of Communication and Multimedia Design. Two years ago I thought I would create a big 3D animation. I have done that as a part of the crew of the [...]