Design Space Cards: Using a Card Deck to Navigate the Design Space of Interactive Play

The potential space of game designs is astronomically large. This paper shows how game design theories can be translated into a simple, tangible card deck that can assist in the exploration of new game designs within a broader "design space."By translating elements of game design theory into a physical card deck, we enable users to randomly...

SmartLEGO: Enrich physical LEGO play

Smart devices have become more integrated in daily life over the past few years. Nowadays they are a fast growing market with rapidly changing technological developments. LEGO noticed that even young children aged between 4 and 6 years are playing with smart devices. To keep up with this new type of play, LEGO wants to explore the possibilities...

Harnessing Children's Creativity in Contextmapping Activities

Recently developed co-design methods ask for users’ creative outcomes all through the design process. Designers are familiar with the creative process but users are not. The heuristic tasks given to users should reveal their creativity and harness it for high-quality outcomes. Contextmapping is a new co-design method following the same need as...