1. usability User ability playability Ability to play

2. Is it about the design ? Or the needs and wants of the user/player? DesignUser/player

3. a Peek at design form over function function over form Alessi - Philippe Starck "Juicy Salif" "Most architects want to dictate the design. The architectural features had to take a back seat," however, due to electrical and mechanical requirements of the behemoth supercomputers. Jonathan Ive

4. user centred design persona - profiling in games development approaches focus groups low-fidelity prototyping design walk through

5. user centred design approaches focus groups low-fidelity prototyping Focus Group Research: Premium Salad Dressing Dodge Caliber (focus group UK) Dodge Caliber (focus group US) Lo-fi web prototyping Paper Prototype - Usability Test Low Fidelity Prototype - The EnviroScape

6. user generated content Web 2.0? Jeremy Paxman (Newsnight) promotes User Generated Content top 15 web 2.0 sites | february 2009

7. are we in control? Start of session = 13 students "Web 2.0" in just under 5 minutes Mike Wesch Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology Kansas State University ethno graphy Anthropology

8. are we in control? how do you deal with the input from users? monitoring? censoring? testing? moderation? copyright? a system for content management? What about freedom ? how do you deal with the input from users?