Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, many people around the world avoid leaving home. Therefore we began to live in a reality reminiscent of the video game Death Stranding — a last year’s big hit created by Kojima Productions.
As I write these words (March 1, 2020), the Wuhan coronavirus infected 87,000 people around the world, killing nearly 3,000 of them. Due to the very high infectivity of the virus and the long incubation time (of up to 14 days) during which the patient can spread the virus, one of the most effective weapons against SARS-CoV-2 is quarantine. The recommended quarantine applies to people returning from high-risk regions, but in places where the virus has been reported, people try to limit their stay outside the home. …
A well-designed tutorial allows you to efficiently introduce new users to even very complex processes. The problem is that designing this is not an easy task. In this article, I will present what we can learn from Japanese video game designers in this matter and how can we implement this in UX design.
From this article you will learn:
- What we can learn from Nintendo game designers in the matter of good tutorials.
- How a technique from Japanese literature works with design.
- How we can implement in digital products.
Why me:
- I’m a UX designer with over 4 years of experience, working every day with big clients from all around the world. …
The times of television monopoly are gone for good. Streaming platforms have dominated the serial market, offering titles whose quality increasingly exceeds Hollywood hits. In addition to that, what attracts us to streaming is the flexibility and content available at any time. Users can watch what they want when they want, without the need to worry about ad interruptions or device limitations that would affect their viewing pleasure. So it’s safe to say that in addition to the content itself, the form in which it is delivered to viewers is equally important.
Without a doubt, aside from Amazon Prime and Netflix, one of the most important streaming platforms on the market is HBO Go. The great number of productions is proof of it. Chernobyl left viewers and critics speechless, but the one that blew up HBO is Game of Thrones. And that happened to be the primary reason why many viewers to subscribe to the platform. With the premiere of every season, we could see the spike in registered viewers. But interestingly, at the end of the last season, the number of paid users dropped by 16%. It begs to question if that number of dropped users were only interested in Game of Thrones. And it also made us designers here at 10Clouds ask if the bad UX and UI of the platform played a part in this. …
Video games must be well designed to keep players interested because unlike digital services, the process must be a reward itself. That’s why it’s worth taking gamedev as an inspiration during the design process.
My first article about five things that digital product design can learn from gamedev met with a warm reception. I feel honored because it was even curated by Medium staff in Design, Gaming, and UX categories. It inspired me also to write more, because as a User Experience Designer, gamer and video games journalist, I have many more examples. …
Maintaining the interest of gamers is extremely difficult, but game developers have many tricks up their sleeves. What can we learn from them?
Video games are now the biggest and fastest-growing branch of the entertainment industry. Gaming events such as E3 organized every year in Los Angeles USA draw the attention of the media, consumers, and investors from around the world. Hollywood stars are becoming more and more involved in the production of new games. …
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