April 2016
Intermediate to advanced
325 pages
9h 24m
English
Content preview from Designed for Use, 2nd EditionBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
Start your free trial
Further Reading
Both Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience [Csi02] by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi and A Theory of Fun for Game Design [Kos04] by Raph Koster provide useful insight into what makes things fun. Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals [SZ03] by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman is also worth reading, as is Thomas W. Malone’s paper “Heuristics for Designing Enjoyable User Interfaces,”[147]
Replica Island developer Chris Pruett writes a great blog about game design that sometimes touches on usability issues.[148]
On YouTube, there’s an interesting presentation called “Putting the Fun in Functional: Applying Game Mechanics to Functional Software” by Shufflebrain CEO Amy Jo Kim.[149]
David McRaney writes about the the overjustification ...