Design lessons from Space Invaders

Interface design for creative, thinking work is particularly important for software, which is a medium that has few true constraints. The medium of canvas or photography constrains output to two dimensions of shape and color. Recorded audio is a stream of sounds, writing is a stream of words. But software itself? It can take any perceptual form we ... See more

Universe Guiding Design Principles: 1) playful interfaces that induce flow state. 2) magical canvas: universe is an open-ended tool but we help you make it beautiful. 3) progressive disclosure: something exceedingly powerful to use but very easy. these things are at tension with each other which is very hard. one answer is progressive disclosure w

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