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One of the reasons I love web design is because there is so much opportunity to pull knowledge and inspiration from other disciplines. The SXSW panel “Playing on! Interface Lessons from Games” let me do that, and it dealt with video games, which are just fun. The general idea of the panel was:

“We know we will have succeeded when non-game interactions provide the same level of emotion, feedback, progress indication, innovative controls and social involvement that games supply.”

The points that really resonated with me the most were their discussion of “progress indication” and “social involvement” and how those apply to the work we do in web design.

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