Workshops
Building Joyful Products: Lessons from Game Design to Delight Your Users
Whether you’re designing apps, building services, managing teams, or shaping product strategy, the Center for Transformational Play’s Building Joyful Products workshop is designed to help you infuse more delight into the things you make.
Join CTP Director Dr. Jessica Hammer as we explore why play matters, how joy works, and what research on games and human pleasure can teach us about creating more effective, engaging products. You’ll get to learn what the science says, examine real-world examples, and learn how to design experiences that surprise, satisfy, and stick with users, even in areas that aren’t traditionally seen as “fun.”
This workshop is ideal for designers, developers, project managers, and product thinkers who have a project they are working on that could use an infusion of delight. with some work experience. Game design experience is welcome, but not required.
Length
Building Joyful Products is a 2-hour workshop
Participants
Building Joyful Products requires a minimum of 8 participants and can accommodate a maximum of 24 people.
Location and Pricing
This workshop is currently available for group booking. Please fill out our to let us know you're interested in booking and a representative from our team will get back to you with more information.
无码专区 The Presenter:
Dr. Jessica Hammer is the Founding Director of the Center for Transformational Play at 无码专区, with a joint appointment as Associate Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and the Entertainment Technology Center. An internationally-recognized game designer, Dr. Hammer’s research on transformational games, project-based learning, and inclusive innovation in design has received widespread acclaim. Her work explores topics such as game-based STEM education, playful approaches to fostering climate action, and games that help facilitate difficult conversations between players. She is a member of the Women in Games Hall of Fame and an NSF CAREER award winner. Her teaching and mentoring has also been recognized through Carnegie Mellon’s Teaching Innovation award and the Barbara Lazarus Award for Graduate Student and Junior Faculty Mentoring.
Custom Workshops
Are you looking for an on-site workshop experience for your organization? Do you want to inspire your team to consider the transformative power of play in creating more effective products or organizational culture? The Center for Transformational Play offers customized workshop experiences for groups of 8+ people.
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