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Playful Design

Creating Game Experiences in Everyday Interfaces

Playful Design

By John Ferrara. Rosenfeld Media, May 2012.
ISBNs: paperback (1-933820-14-4); digital editions (1-933820-99-3)

Game design is a sibling discipline to software and Web design, but they're siblings that grew up in different houses.  They have much more in common than their perceived distinction typically suggests, and user experience practitioners can realize enormous benefit by exploiting the solutions that games have found to the real problems of design.  This book will show you how. 

“Playful Design” Blog

The first review!

And it's pretty positive!  (Breathing on fingernails; buffing fingernails on lapel.)

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"Playful Design" now available

I'm massively excited to announce that my new book exploring how games can achieve great things in the real world is now on sale!

You can download and read the introduction for totally free.  It really sets the tone for the book and gives you a sense of what it's all about.

Please reach out and let me know what you think by following @PlayfulDesign on the Twitters.

Happy day!

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