What your designs say about you
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What does your chair say about what you value? Designer Sebastian Deterding shows how our visions of morality and "the good life" are reflected in the design of objects around us.
What does your chair say about what you value? Designer Sebastian Deterding shows how our visions of morality and "the good life" are reflected in the design of objects around us.
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Sebastian Deterding is an interface designer who thinks deeply about persuasive and gameful design.
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Nathan Shedroff | Rosenfeld Media, 2009 | Book
Design Is the Problem
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Sebastian Deterding | in Rethinking Gamification, Mathias Fuchs et al. (Editors), Meson Press, 2014 | Article
Eudaimonic Design, or: Six Invitations to Rethink Gamification
If you want an expanded version of the thoughts in my talk, the best thing to read is this little text by me.
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