Designing Encounters for Sites
Narrative Design is a term taken from video game development and was first coined by Stephen Dinehart, who describes the designing of narrative as an artefact. The role of a narrative designer in interactive storytelling differs in that it is an active process to create story via a users navigation of a dataspace.
The navigation and design of space has always been the purview of architects and engineers, but besides functionality, I believe that narrative design currently is not being mined for its full potential in crafting encounters for its occupants.
I propose that we expand the current definition of…
Use your old device, it still works.
I am experiencing technology fatigue and I don’t think I’m the only one.
Since the dawn of the millennium, we have experienced a technological boom that we have never seen the likes of before. It is catapulting us into the glaring promise of teleportation and sentient A.I. (I’m kidding. The latter, not so kidding). What we have instead are the newest phone, the newest tablet, the newest camera, etc. Each one purporting a brand new feature (lie), promising a brand new experience (more lies), and is wholly different from the generation before (biggest lie of all).
Now, I know this…
Easy Tools for Confident Delivery
We all get the sweats before an important public event, especially when you have to be up there, all alone before a microphone, or before a panel of people. Your palms get sweaty, your throat dry and you grip your cue cards tighter to hide the fact that you’re shaking.
You are not alone.
With every public speaking event, it is not just how or what words we say to get our point across, sometimes it is the ephemeral quality of presence that makes the biggest impact. Do you fill the room? Not just with volume, but with your presence?
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Unsanctioned Rebellion in a Time of Tidiness
The act of spitting has always been associated with disdain and vileness, but we see it happen all the time in public. Associated with public health risk and also poor manners, it is common that this law against spitting is found in many developed countries. But unlike other laws in Singapore that police public behaviour like that of littering, smoking and carrying durians on public transport, spitting is usually done in secret and hard to spot.
My family not so long ago had a problem with spitting, most likely done by our neighbour. As we live in the corner of…
A Cautionary Tale from Singapore
One of the most devastating human emotions. It is an emotion that is usually felt in concert with a few others; anger, fear and pain. It is defined as when ones status is lowered in front of another, but what about the times when the humiliator is absent?
Originally, if someone humiliates you in public, physically or emotionally, you would definitely have the recourse to take action against them. HR, or in worse cases, the police. But now, I am not so sure.
I have only felt it three times in my life in varying degrees, but it is the…
Christopher Fok
Narrative Designer and Thinker
