Kudos to the IxDA folks who set up the awesome presentation given by Matt Jones, co-founder and lead designer at Dopplr:
IxDA-SF Presents: Matt Jones, "Playfulness in Design"
The presentation was awesome -- I think it challenged a lot of us to try to make the designs for our domains more playful, which is something that is not all that easy to do if you're not working for a Flickr or a game company.
That said, even some of the more "dry" or "serious" fields of business need a certain amount of interesting interactions, otherwise you feel like you're working in the same blinking fluorescent-light bunker of depression as Tom Hanks' character in Joe Versus the Volcano.
OK, so maybe there's not a whole load of playfulness I can inject into our product line for banks (a rather dry topic), but maybe adding a little will improve the user experience. So that's what I'm aiming for...
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