spatial software - figma config

• spatial software with John Palmer at figma config
  • spatial software is the next big UX paradgim
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  • isn’t everything spatial? different degrees of spatiality
    • you want pure spatial tools, not force users to hack it together
  • spatial design considerations
    • use spatial only when helpful
      • spatiality isn’t just magically better for everything
        • email app is sorted reverse chronological order, works for the purpose. Making it spatial is not obviously better
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    • designing space is designing product
      • pong vs. pokemon vs. minecraft
      • not just choosing aesthetic
        • where can we learn from? great spaces to be in
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          • can learn from mistakes, boston city hall in planning, just a big open space that people dont want to spend time in
          • can learn from good examples
            • NYC subway where you know where not to stand, street in NYC separate areas for pedestrians vs. bike lane vs. cars. Natural affordances in space
          • need to break out of traditional bubble and learn from other fields that think about “design” holistically
    • bodies and spaces are inseparable pair
      • spaces are important but you also have to be mindful of designing bodies
      • “ecological approach to visual perception” — coined term affordances
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      • have to design from “my” perspective
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        • standard options to represent someone
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        • naive if we can just port these into virtual spaces to act like bodies, we need more dynamic representations of users
          • learn from character and game design
          • design perfect body to nihabit virtual world
        • body + space pairs
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            • good that its under-designed. tells you just enough to let you focus on your work
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            • in gather, the “approach” towards you is important
          • imagine figma canvas with gather avatar. it’s weird. gather office with figma cursor also weird. doesn’t feel like im in the office, im in some god mode
        • game feel defines user experience
          • game feel becomes really important in spatial/game design
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          • game design term called juicing: maximizing outputs from players inputs, maximizing the game feel
            • juice it or lose it
          • tetris revamped — tetris effect
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            • details become crucial
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              • Making of Prince of Persia