Image Credit: Quickmeme This post covers the concept of Need for Affect and how it can be used to improve and influence User Experience. Specifically, I will be focusing on how this concept can be applied to video game design.
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If you’ve ever tried to find your terminal in an airport, you’ve undergone a psychological process called wayfinding. Wayfinding is the navigation of 3D environments through the use of spatial cues, such as following signs and hallways to your intended destination. All humans learn how to wayfind from the moment they learn to crawl, so
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Ringly is a smart ring created with the purpose of helping women lead a healthier and more balanced lifestyle, combining innovative technology with well crafted jewelry. The device consists on a ring with a sensor that is paired with the Ringly app on the user’s phone, allowing the notification of mobile alerts without the need
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Design Critique: Blizzard Entertainment (Portal Website) Fig.1 Introduction This website is the homepage for the entertainment company Blizzard. This website is mainly to generally introduce their products, exhibit what they already have, arouse people’s interest to take their products. And leave an entrance for their users to sign up or log in an account. What’s
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What is Texture, and Who Is It For? Texture is a subscription-based mobile reading app that gives its users unlimited access to a broad range of select magazine titles. It provides useful features such as offline reading, the ability to save magazine articles for later reading, and “subscription” to favorite publications. For mobile readers, Texture
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Introduction: I want to explain my experience by using new launched IOS 11 human interface lock-screen part, analysis the subtle changes of this time, and some specific user-friendly design and suggestion of IOS 11 lock-screen. My interactive device is iPhone 7plus. This blog only represents my self’s point of view, please offer any suggestion and
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Spotify is a music, podcast, and video streaming service that was officially launched on 7 October 2008. Its basic features are free with advertisements or limitations, while additional features, such as music downloads, are offered via paid subscriptions. Spotify is available in most of Europe, most of the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, and parts of Asia. It
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Uniqlo is a popular casual apparel brand, they recently developed an APP to support their online retailing market. As most functions of the app directly linked to their responsive web so that it can complete their basic goals–purchase items online, generate guests’ own digital barcode of their member accounts, get coupons and alerts, etc.
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Figure (a). General screenshot Introduction Rhizome, the New Museum-affiliated born-digital art organization behind Net Art Anthology, describes this dedicated microsite as a “two-year online exhibition presenting 100 works of restored and re-performed net art” [1]. Since its launch in October 2016, Net Art Anthology aims to restage and contextualize one project each week by uploading
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Simple Habit is a meditation application that allows busy people to fit meditation around their schedule. Users can choose from over 1,000 different meditations, create playlists, comment on posts and share meditations. The app is free, but in order to have the full experience, users must pay a subscription to unlock and download all meditations.
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