Dave Cronin: Designing For Flow

Slide 1: Designing for flow Dave Cronin : February 10, 2008

Slide 2: What is flow?

Slide 3: Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

Slide 4: Full immersion Focused attention Intent and action merge Sense of control Lack of self- consciousness Transformation of time Sense of intrinsic reward Positive state of mind Productivity

Slide 5: Uh, ok… so how do we do this?

Slide 6: Support natural decision-making

Slide 7: Satisfy people’s goals & mental models

Slide 8: Facilitate simulation

Slide 9: Provide fewer capabilities with less interface

Slide 10: Provide fewer capabilities with less interface

Slide 11: Provide multivariate context

Slide 12: “I found that if a painter relates to objects only through vision, his work is much less original than a painter who walks up to the object, smells it, throws it in the air, and manipulates it. The variety of sensory inputs allows you to create a visual image that has all kinds of dimensions bubbling up inside it. We are still a multimedia organism. If we want to push the envelope of complexity further, we have to use all of our devices for accessing information - not all of which are rational.” - Mihály Csíkszentmihályi Provide multivariate context

Slide 13: Provide multivariate feedback

Slide 14: Provide multivariate feedback

Slide 15: Provide multivariate feedback

Slide 16: Provide multivariate feedback

Slide 17: Provide multivariate feedback

Slide 18: Allow for dense, nuanced input

Slide 19: Allow for dense, nuanced input

Slide 20: Involve the physical

Slide 21: Keep tools close at hand

Slide 22: Keep tools close at hand

Slide 23: Optimize for fluency

Slide 24: Consider friction

Slide 25: Consider rhythm

Slide 26: Thanks!