Week 11

Week 11 (4/26 - 5/2)

• This week was full of guest speakers during class. We had Matthew Mauriello on Tuesday and Megan Boddum on Thursday

• Guest speaker Megan Boddum

• Matthew Mauriello walked us through an exercise that was a quick game design where we pitched ideas around one concept and saw how far we could run with it

• Our phrase was domesticated animals, and I had one fantastic idea for it. I pitched my idea of a Nintendogs type game where you raised and took care of monsters, and it was clearly a good one because everyone in my group chose that pitch immediately.

Notes from Megan Boddum:

Trend Spotting and Ongoing Observations (Constant Voice of User)

• Role as researcher is the always be picking up on trends

Cozmo Performs Feature

• Over time specific play patterns began to be observed

• Code Lab: coding game (Scratch) built into Cozmo

• Cozmo Says: Choose the words Cozmo says

• New features in Cozmo inspired by observations

Piano Concept

• Another design concept made for kids based on the research they did thus far

• Kids struggled with this one more than cozmo

Older adults designing things for kids need to take into account what kids do and don't know rather than design based on things they knew when they were kids

Code Design with Kids

Age-Up Initiative

• They had to figure out how to retain kids in the youtube kids app and avoid them going to the main app too quickly and potentially see inappropriate content

• Had to find ways to make engaging content for kids on the youtube kids app

Youtube kids design crew

• Team built around making code design activities for kids

• Kids picked were usually ones familiar with youtube kids frequent users of it

• Kids wanted element of personalization and customization

• Wanted to see themes of action and adventure