Play Design is not a new discipline per se, but many in the creative industries know very little about it. Many confuse it with Game Design and although there are similarities, Play Design is its own category with its own set of rules. We invited 4 designers who are working at the intersection of Play Design and UX to come in and make us all smarter on this topic.

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AGENDA

18:30-18:45

Presentation of CPHUX and HK (community partner)

18:45-19:05

Play meets research - It's a match!

by Maria Vitaller, Design Researcher at Service Design Lab - Aalborg

UniversitySerious municipality working team meets daring design, master students. Play-related project. Long process. Low activity. A first-ever 6-weeks on-site school program. No expectations. Probably the worst possible breeding ground for a love story. Yet, a successful one. The secret ingredient? Play. Applied to shape ludic interventions, the play was the steady constant that broke the traditional working culture at a municipality: it unfolded deep conversations, fuelled insights emergence, encouraged safe brainstormings and facilitated enjoyable decision-making processes. Learning from this case, we will discuss the potential of applying play to our research activities.

19:05-19:25

Towards playful mindset - intuitive research in digital design

by Zuzanna Gronowicz, Senior UX Designer & Research Assistant at Designskolen Kolding

What can a "playful approach" mean in research and creating new digital products? How can a change in attitude allow UX designers and researchers to get closer to their users, learn from them and discover novel ways of interaction? Those are some of the questions that drove Zuzanna's explorative MA project about digital spaces in the midst of the pandemic. During this talk she will share her reflections on the topic and insights from her experimental practice.

19:25-19:40

BREAK 😉 Go stretch those legs and get a drink 🚰

19:40-20:00

Gamification vs Play - A Practical Reflection

by Tudor Cristian Bogdan, UX Researcher at LabsterWhile we all can recognize the feeling of play, it might be harder for some of us to develop and detect the digital elements and interactions that foster play.

20:00-20:40

‘Sensible Futures Framework’ – bringing play into the field of foresight

by Rebecca Houmøller, Play and Experience Designer at Stupid Studio

The Sensible Futures Framework is a new, playful approach to futures thinking. Often when companies work with foresight they tend to look for inspiration and new knowledge in long trend reports. But what if all of that work could be done in a more co-creative, playful and experiential way, where people actually got to feel the futures on their own bodies instead of only reading about it? Sharing some real-life cases, that’s exactly what this short and sweet talk will be about.

20:40-21:00

Panel with community questions from Slido

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Or use the code 361317

MEET UX PASSIONIST:

Maria Vitaller

Design Researcher at Service Design Lab - Aalborg University

Maria Vitaller is a designer and researcher in the fields of play and service design. With a multidisciplinary background in Human Centred Design and Education, she has vast experience as a design consultant, teacher, mentor and academic researcher. Since 2017, when she enrolled in the first-ever group of MA Play Design at Designskolen Kolding (Denmark), she has been designing situations, objects and services using play as the process, the outcome or the mindset of a project. As an academic, Maria participates in several European research projects, where she applies service design for the development of ecosystems for sustainable and citizen-centred cities. Play is still a key aspect of her process for generating trust with stakeholders, facilitating delicate conversations, managing engaging online and offline workshops, or approaching design methods to actors that are not familiar with the design world.

Website: https://www.vitallerdesign.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariavitaller

Zuzanna Gronowicz

Senior UX Designer & Research Assistant at Designskolen Kolding

Zuzanna Gronowicz is an experience and communication designer with play at heart. She graduated with MA in Design for Play from Designskolen Kolding in the middle of pandemic confusion of 2020, which she used to dive head first into plethora of digital worlds and conduct a playful research about the future of digital communication. She currently works as a Senior UX Designer at Designskolen Kolding.

Website: www: zuzgro.cargo.site

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/zuzgro

Instagram: @zuz_gro

Tudor Cristian Bogdan

UX Researcher at Labster

Tudor is a UX Researcher at Labster, where he works with aligning the value of virtual science labs to the needs of hundreds of thousands of students and educators. With a passion for meaningful product development, Tudor aims to develop a holistic perspective to UX Research, by actively working on adopting a holistic lifestlye. Finds breathing exercises to be a life-hack to awareness, which is of high value, even moreso in UX Research.

LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/tcbogdan

Rebecca Houmøller

Play and Experience Designer at Stupid Studio

Rebecca Houmøller is a play and experience designer, currently working at Stupid Studio. She graduated from Design School Kolding in 2019 with a MA in play, where she developed the “Sensible Futures Framework” together with two other students. The framework has since become an online platform and community on its own, and the 30+ methods are daily being used by both Stupid Studio and other design teams with a wide range of clients.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccahoumoller/

Instagram: @rebeccahoumoller

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