Tyler’s Thesis

Blockchain LARP

When brainstorming possible game formats to help explain blockchain to people I came up with the idea of a blockchain LARP.

Mid-semester Thesis Summary Attempts

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A workshop and pen and paper game that helps people understand how blockchain technology works, because it is unintuitive and difficult to understand and it will become more widespread and its important people have some understanding of…

Paintchain Prototype Reflections

Results from User Testing

General Reflections

• Minimize jargon as much as possible
• Onboarding probably requires a little bit of hand holding

Pen and Paper Blockchain

In order to help make the concepts and mechanics of blockchain more tangible I prototyped a workshop/game where participants receive and then maintain a pen and paper record that they maintain collectively in a process analogous to the proof of work protocol in blockchain.

Paintchain: A Creative Game to Teach People About Blockchain Technology

Hypothesis: If people understand blockchain technology better they will be more likely to engage with and adopt the technology thus enjoying the advantages it offers. Additionally, a game is a compelling and…

Blockchain Games

To test some of my assumptions around blockchain over the next two weeks I wanted to create a game to help inform people about the technology. I started by creating a series of different games at a low fidelity to test which direction and style of game was most promising to pursue.

Blockchain Assumptions

Over the past half year or so, I’ve gotten very interested in blockchain technology. My initial interest was sparked by how intriguingly unintuitive the technology seemed to be. There seemed to be so many things going on in such unusual ways that it was difficult to latch onto an analogy…

Thinking Together: Thesis Critique

A lesson I learned in Christina Xu and Gary Chou’s Entrepreneurial Design class was great ideas don’t come up in isolation. You don’t solve design problems by isolating yourself and thinking through it long enough. Speaking through your ideas with people can result in…

Mood Boards and Ecosystem

To help get my thinking going I made some clusters of images. I tried to group them into three distinct spaces in the patient experience where different technology and platforms will need to interact.