Quality user experience (UX) design is crucial for avoiding mechanics, interfaces, and situations that frustrate players. What can we learn from UX design to make video games more usable, and therefore more engaging? Catt Small, a UX Designer and game maker, will share UX design techniques.
Design has become a major differentiator — see Dots and Monument Valley — because it leads to better user retention and more sales. Great visual design can’t gloss over a poorly-designed interaction. This class will cover UX design techniques, examples of poor usability in games, and ways to immediately begin improving the usability of your game.