ux poland 2014: n.efimov & y. vedenin - playful design

Playful design

Nikita Efimovn.efimov@uxpresso.net

Yuri Vedeniny.vedenin@uxpresso.net

Brainstorming

problems

Collaborative

warming-up sessions

Mind exercises

Our plan

Badges, achievements???

2 issues with brainstorms

1) Lack of ideas

2) Nobody participates

Lack of ideas

In the middle of the workday

Left vs Right

9 dotes 4 lines

16 dots 6 lines

Ready to try?

9 dots 4 lines

16 dots 6 lines

Results…

Train hard!

Nobody really participates

But… why?

- This is booooring

- Blah-blah-blah again

- I’ll say smth stupid

- Hmm, I need to think about it

+ 100500 other reasons

And the result is…

Patterns in my head…

Guess Who?

Blue

Yellow

Orange

Red

Blue

Purple

White

Black

Orange

Pink

The biggest enemy of innovation is common sense“

Sir Ken Robinson

Crisis of ideas occurs exactly when the designer sets a goal to come up with something original and unusual“

Artemy Lebedev

Train your lateral thinking

r e a d

0 —————-

2o

death life

T H I N K !

Two heads are better than one

4 levels of brainstorm

1 2 3 4

1 - Warm-up

3 rules of any warming-up

1) Warming-up subject = brainstorm subject

2) No BAD and GOOD ideas

3) Playful and diverse

Antiphrases

• Nothing that dims is not a silver;

• Worse earlier than forever;

• Good history stays slow;

• Two pears at night brings the killer closer.

Empathy

Drawing doodles1. Draw everything that comes to your mind (2-3 mins);

2. Pass the result to the person sitting left to you;

3. Continue drawing what they passed to you (2-3 mins);

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you get your original paper back.

+ add music to the taste

Use both hands

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZI3OCbI4LM

If you miss your warming-up…

4 levels of brainstorm

warming-up “braindump" feedback session

improving ideas

6-to-1

Train hard

Warm-up

Fight to the last

What you can read

Where you can play

http://www.gogamestorm.com

http://innovationgames.com

http://projectofhow.com

+ google it!

We’ll be back!

Nikita Efimovn.efimov@uxpresso.net

Yuri Vedeniny.vedenin@uxpresso.net