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Designing for fun: how can we design user interfaces to be more fun?

by: Ben Shneiderman
interactions, Vol. 11, No. 5. (2004), pp. 48-50.

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(1) provide the right functions so that users can accomplish their goals

(2) offer usability plus reliability to prevent frustration from undermining the fun

(3) engage users with fun-features

Some insights come from promoters of the Contextual Inquiry method [1] and activity theory, who recognize the importance of generative theories that might help designers invent enjoyable services and fun-filled applications. The Activities and Relationship Table [8] tries to lay out the key human activities related to information technologies (collect, relate, create, donate) and a range of human relationships (working by yourself, families and friends, colleagues and neighbors, and citizens and markets). The relationships are organized by degree of shared knowledge, trust, and expectations of future encounters.

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