Logic mapping is a game design tool. It uses logic-flows to unpack the complexity of a problem while guiding your thinking towards useful and related solutions. It acts as a design thinking shortcut; as efficiently testing out the viability of a solution as it is at unpacking a problem. Logic…

As a game design professional, academic and the resident game designer for the New Zealand governments Service Innovation Lab — LabPlus, I was invited to give a talk on the role of game design psychology and everyday life at the Wellington Creative Mornings event in April 2018. …

Recently, I joined LabPlus an experimental research and development lab situated at the heart of New Zealand government. My intent in joining this innovative initiative is to bring my knowledge of game design and development approaches to government service design. One of my first tasks as a member of the…

Posted 16 May 2017 by Hazel Bradshaw & filed under behind the scenes, Digital. Hazel Bradshaw, part of Te Papa digital’s team, looks at how science fiction master Neal Stephenson’s work is informing ideas at Te Papa. Last week American author, Chief Futurist of Magic Leap, and game designer Neal…

We are humans with emotions, not mindless automatons our days should be filled with enjoyment and satisfaction. We all remember a situation when we felt so immersed in what we were doing that we lost all track of time; effortlessly powering through tasks forgetting the rest of the world existed…