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Last session of Day 1 #DR19
Play time! Exploring digital experiences with board games, train sets & 3D printed toilets by Shae Quabba
Play time! Exploring digital experiences with board games, train sets & 3D printed toilets by Shae Quabba
Shae is a design anthropologist and sides play as part of her practice to delve into rituals and other people's practice.
In her job in the innovation and digital futures team it can be hard to uncover what people would be doing in the future. Play helps to unlock what those rituals might be.
Shae has a Play Formula 
Play is great if you need to:
Making sense of the world:
Shae created a hybrid monopoly gofish game to simulate data tradeoffs.
It uncovered their assumptions of a core audience were wrong and they had to identify a new group of people for the product
It uncovered their assumptions of a core audience were wrong and they had to identify a new group of people for the product
Surfacing hidden drama
When you want to be confrontational using play makes sure that it's not personal so you can go harder to uncover more.
Play can help you translate the needs, context, value of your customers to your senior stakeholders.
They built a cardboard house to emphasis that the project wasn't going to be able to scale.
Formula Part 2: Ways To Create Play
Formula Part 3: Build The Play
Knowing where you are helps you build the right thing.
Do you need to use play?
Will it uncover something you can't access with other methods?
Can play fit within your deadline?
Will it uncover something you can't access with other methods?
Can play fit within your deadline?
Here's Shaw's list of references about participatory design and Play.
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