SocialSoftware. iPod. Game Mechanics for Interaction Design: An Interview with Amy Jo Kim « Bokardo – Social Design by Joshua Porter. Game design expert Amy Jo Kim shares her insights into applying game principles to the design of online communities.
Amy Jo Kim is a game/social/web designer known for bridging the divide between game and web design. She has designed software UIs, games, online communities, and wrote the seminal book Community Building for the Web way back in 2000. I have long admired her work, and I am grateful that she recently sat down for an interview on the basics of game mechanics and how they can be used in interaction design.