Week 303

Last week Kars talked with the Air­borne Muse­um about the upcom­ing playtest for SHACHI and also demoed our progress to the client. We are plan­ning a minor pol­ish sprint while we wait for that playtest.

Kars also attend­ed the Hack­ing Habi­tat life-hack marathon about debt and facil­i­tat­ed a ses­sion of Play­ing with Rules for a group of peo­ple involved with the sub­ject.

In my absence Kars pre­pared the kick-off work­shop for our new project KOKORO where we will use the engage­ment loops mod­el to found our design with.

In media appear­ances: both of us are fea­tured sep­a­rate­ly in Vrij Ned­er­land’s rank­ing of the Nether­land­s’s top 101 nerds. We are hon­oured, kind of.

I agree @CForaita I real­ly enjoyed the inspir­ing talk from @whatsthehubbub @alper — It was also won­der­ful to meet Alper & to see you Chris

— Mark A.M. Kramer (@MAMK) June 12, 2015

I spent last week in Vien­na from Tues­day onwards to present at the ÜBERALL app con­gress about play­ful design. I com­bined the vis­it with a fact-find­ing mis­sion for Cup­pings which proved to be extreme­ly fruit­ful. I drank lots of cof­fee in Vien­na’s excel­lent third wave cof­fee bars while prepar­ing my pre­sen­ta­tion.

And anoth­er Star joins us ;) Meet @alper who will unrav­el the mys­tery of Engage­ment Loops in improv­ing your app. pic.twitter.com/kOpU02b7vI

— Code­pot (@codepot_pl) June 10, 2015

I then took the train to Ams­ter­dam at the end of the week for a week of client engage­ments and pro­duc­tion work in the Nether­lands.

Keep an eye out for Code­pot a work­shop con­fer­ence in War­saw this August where I will be giv­ing a work­shop on user engage­ment and app design.