006 - Psychology and UX
Psychology of Video Games Podcast
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The Importance of Contextual Controls in Game Design
In my experience, game designers are pretty smart people. They know about this stuff, or they pay attention to what works. But it's actually funny because there's a lot of misconceptions about UX and one of them is conception is that US is common sense. So yes, sometimes it is going to be common sense if the icon is not understandable, well, you know what, people are not going to understand it. And the other problem is what I call what we call the curse of knowledge,. It's your perception, you as the designer of the game that you know, like the back of your hand, you know everything about it. Well, of course you're going to understand everything
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